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http://tinyurl.com/c4mHuntingdon Today, C4M activists were leafleting voters in Huntingdon near Cambridge. The leaflets, which give ten reasons why the Government is wrong to redefine marriage, were given out in the constituency of Jonathan Djanogly MP. Click a photo to get the hi-res version. ...

Backbench MPs and grassroots Conservatives have publicly urged Mr Cameron to drop his plans to redefine marriage, and a new poll shows more people prefer that move than the idea of ditching plain packaging for cigarettes. It comes after last week’s disastrous local elections results which proved that redefining marriage is a huge vote-loser. Today’s editorial in the Telegraph says Mr Cameron’s obsession with the issue is doing serious damage to his party, and warns him to be ready for a...

Whatever their political allegiances, millions of voters care about the real meaning of marriage. That’s what today’s local election results are saying. And the public has spoken loud and clear: redefining marriage is a catastrophic vote-loser. As this video shows, we went to David Cameron’s own back yard in his Witney constituency on Tuesday to tell him it was a vote-loser, but the door remained firmly shut in our faces. He doesn’t want to hear what ordinary people are saying. Unlike...

Yesterday, over 300 local people gathered outside the Prime Minister David Cameron’s constituency office in Witney, Oxfordshire, to protest against his plans to redefine marriage. A giant postcard signed by local voters calls on Mr Cameron to keep marriage as it is. Cicely Maunder, who recently resigned as chairman of Chipping Norton Conservatives over the issue, attempted to deliver the card to the Witney office but the door remained firmly...

• Gay marriage will hit David Cameron hard in the local elections • Pro traditional marriage UKIP surge to 22 per cent • Lib Dems also losing votes over policy • Proposed redefinition of marriage branded the “ultimate failure of Blairite triangulation policy” David Cameron faces losing hundreds of county council seats this Thursday, because of his plans to redefine marriage, according to a major new poll of voters entitled to vote in this week’s local elections. The...

Today’s Telegraph front page reports a new ComRes poll, commission by C4M, showing that support for Ukip has surged to 22%. Traditional Conservative voters are deserting Cameron because of his obsession with redefining marriage. Lord Tebbit says Tory voters who defect to Ukip can “hardly be blamed”. More to follow later this morning…

http://tinyurl.com/c4mwitney2 Earlier today, over 300 local voters protested outside David Cameron’s constituency office in Witney, Oxfordshire, against his plans to redefine marriage. Former chairman of Chipping Norton Tories, Mrs Cicely Maunder, handed in a giant postcard signed by hundreds of local people asking Mr Cameron to leave marriage alone. She resigned earlier in the year over the issue, which Mr Cameron has been obsessed with even though it wasn’t in the party’s...

http://tinyurl.com/c4mHorwich Today, C4M activists were leafleting voters in Horwich near Bolton. The leaflets urge voters to lobby local Labour MP Julie Hilling to say they don’t want marriage redefined. Click a photo to get the hi-res version. ...

http://tinyurl.com/c4mNorthwich Today, C4M activists were leafleting voters in the town of Northwich near Chester. The leaflets, which give ten reasons why the Government is wrong to redefine marriage, were given out in the constituency of Graham Evans MP. Click a photo to get the hi-res version. ...

http://tinyurl.com/c4mWaterloo On Saturday, C4M activists were leafleting voters and collecting petition signatures in the town of Waterloo near Liverpool. The leaflets give ten reasons why the Government is wrong to redefine marriage. Click a photo to get the hi-res version. ...