A truly amazing day today. Eddie Izzard, comedian, actor, marathon hero, Labour supporter and all round nice guy, joined us in Horsforth this morning to lend his support to our campaign. We held a hugely successful street stall on the high street with loads of local residents signing our petition to protect Surestart, before Eddie and I gave an interview to the press about our campaign here in Pudsey, the challenges we face and the vision of a fair future that we represent.

I'll post a video of the interview as soon as it becomes available, but until then, here is Eddie's PPB on behalf of Labour: