BRIGHOUSE, UNITED KINGDOM: Prime Minister Tony Blair buys fish and chips at the Happy Haddock restaurant in Brighouse, West Yorkshire 15 May 2001, following a surprise visit to the area during his General Election campaign trail. POOL (Photo credit should read HARRY PAGE/AFP via Getty Images)BRIGHOUSE, UNITED KINGDOM: Prime Minister Tony Blair buys fish and chips at the Happy Haddock restaurant in Brighouse, West Yorkshire 15 May 2001, following a surprise visit to the area during his General Election campaign trail. POOL (Photo credit should read HARRY PAGE/AFP via Getty Images)
BRIGHOUSE, UNITED KINGDOM: Prime Minister Tony Blair buys fish and chips at the Happy Haddock restaurant in Brighouse, West Yorkshire 15 May 2001, following a surprise visit to the area during his General Election campaign trail. POOL (Photo credit should read HARRY PAGE/AFP via Getty Images)

General Election 2024: Looking back at general election campaign visits to Halifax including Tony Blair, David Cameron and Boris Johnson coming to town

By Tom Scargill
Published 23rd May 2024, 16:30 BST
With another general election campiagn kicking off, we thought we’d take a look back at previous Prime Ministers – and would-be Prime Ministers – visiting Calderdale to drum up support.

How many of these visits do you remember?

HEBDEN BRIDGE, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn waves as he departs after speaking to hundreds of people who attended an election rally on May 15, 2017 in Hebden Bridge. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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HEBDEN BRIDGE, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn waves as he departs after speaking to hundreds of people who attended an election rally on May 15, 2017 in Hebden Bridge. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Photo: Leon Neal

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HEBDEN BRIDGE, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn gestures to hundreds of supporters who attended an election rally on May 15, 2017 in Hebden Bridge. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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HEBDEN BRIDGE, ENGLAND - MAY 15: Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn gestures to hundreds of supporters who attended an election rally on May 15, 2017 in Hebden Bridge. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Photo: Leon Neal

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Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher holding up two different sized shopping bags, illustrating the difference between the drop in the value of the one pound note under the Labour government, during canvassing for the General Election in Halifax, Yorkshire, April 25th 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher holding up two different sized shopping bags, illustrating the difference between the drop in the value of the one pound note under the Labour government, during canvassing for the General Election in Halifax, Yorkshire, April 25th 1979. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: Keystone

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