Tory candidate Amanda Milling hits out at 'senseless' vandals

A Conservative parliamentary candidate has hit out at 'senseless' vandals after dozens of her campaign posters were destroyed.

Amanda Milling, the Tory candidate for Cannock Chase, said posters her team had put up around the constituency have been 'stolen, graffitied on, set fire to and destroyed' during the snap General Election campaign.

Other Tory candidates in Staffordshire and the Black Country have also seen their campaign materials vandalised, including Stafford's Jeremy Lefroy and Government Chief Whip Gavin Williamson, who is bidding for re-election in South Staffordshire.

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A furious Ms Milling said she hoped the perpetrators would be brought to book.

"Vandalism of any party's posters is totally unacceptable," she said.

"Over the last few weeks my posters across Cannock Chase have been repeatedly vandalised. I have had posters stolen, graffitied, set fire to and destroyed.

"I hope that the perpetrators will be show up on some CCTV as many are in prominent locations.

"Sadly this is not isolated to Cannock Chase as I have had many Conservative colleagues across Staffordshire and the country face similar issues.

"In the general elections that my team and I have been involved in we have never experienced these levels of vandalism.

"I know members of the public have been appalled by this senseless and criminal behaviour."

Ms Milling is defending a 4,923 majority from the last General Election. This year she is up against Labour's Paul Dadge, Lib Dem Nat Green, Paul Woodhead of the Green Party and UKIP's Paul Allen.

Last week more than 20 Conservative posters were defaced on a stretch of Wolverhampton Road in Warley.