Independent candidate John Hemming-Clark

Standing on a platform of tackling crime, cutting immigration, scrapping speed cameras and sacking adulterous MPs, Independent candidate John Hemming-Clark claimed he would provide a local alternative to any Conservative parachuted into the normally safe Tory constituency.

"The good people of Bromley and Chislehurst want a local person as their MP," he said. "Someone who, like Eric, stood up for them both locally and in the House of Commons.

"Unfortunately, the Tories have a choice from either a Bromley Council, Greater London Assembly or other constituency MP dinosaur, or a parachuted-in PC celebrity whose interest is their own self-promotion and not the interests of the local people."