The Foreign Secretary was in Southampton to lend his support to local Conservative Candidate Royston Smith.

He was asked by a Daily Echo reporter if the Conservatives could win in Southampton. Well, they can. That is self evident.

But opposition candidates would obviously have a different opinion.

The fascinating, hypocritical comment of the week has to have come from the Labour Candidate for Southampton Itchen.

She said, “The people of Southampton will decide who wins on May 7, not a Tory minister from London.”

This from the Labour Candidate parachuted in from London by Ed Miliband. Just priceless. We all know what they say about people in glass houses.

Someone should explain it to Ed Miliband's candidate in Southampton Itchen.

JAMES BENNETT, Address supplied.