Derby City Council Conservative party leader, Harvey Jennings and deputy leader, Matthew Holmes met Mr Cameron (pictured) and spoke about how Derby Conservatives are helping campaign to retain two East Midlands European seats and gain a third along with supporting Derbyshire Conservatives in their aim to end Labour's 28-year control of Derbyshire County Council.

Mr Cameron has also repeated his pledged that if the Conservatives win power in the next general election, any council which budgeted for a council tax rise of 2.5% would get financial help from Government to effectively keep any council tax rise to zero.

Derby Conservative Leader, Harvey Jennings has already pledged that if the Conservatives took control of Derby City Council his group is committed to freezing council tax at zero percent under the scheme.

Local Parliamentary Candidates, Derby North's Stephen Mold, Derby South's Jack Perschke and Mid Derbyshire's Pauline Latham also met Mr Cameron and discussed the importance of next years local and general elections for the party. Both Derby and Mid-Derbyshire are seen as a key battle grounds.

Conservative East Midlands MEP Roger Helmer is standing again in the European elections on June 4th along with Emma McClarkin and Rupert Matthews. Fiona Bulme and George Lee join them in a bid to take all of the the five seats available for the region. They were given a boost by Mr Cameron as he launched their campaign at Derby County's Pride Park Stadium.