The Harrow West MP explained it would also set up a body called Community Power Direct, to advise local communities on matters relating to energy generation.

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Nevertheless, psephologists say they do have to up their game if they want to win some of those target marginal seats they have lost to Labour and the Liberal Democrats, like Harrow West and Solihull.

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Gareth Thomas, the Labour MP for Harrow West and a former international development minister, told the committee he had been "worried" by the influx of Conservative money into his constituency during the general election campaign.

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