Prime Minister Visits Archant Suffolk Team in Ipswich

David Cameron visited the Archant Suffolk offices in Ipswich as he brought his whole Cabinet to East Anglia.

The Cabinet held a regional Cabinet meeting at BT’s Adastral Park, just outside Ipswich, on Monday, before Ministers headed out to see community and business projects in Suffolk and Essex.

The Prime Minister spent 30 minutes at Archant’s Ipswich offices, discussing local issues with Archant Anglia managing director Johnny Hustler, Evening Star editor Nigel Pickover, East Anglian Daily Times editor Terry Hunt, and political correspondent Paul Geater.

Mr Cameron toured the newsroom, where he met journalists and discussed local issues such as the Star’s campaign for Ipswich to become a Beacon Town in a time of great economic uncertainty. He also talked about the initiatives which have stopped street prostitution in the town, following the Steve Wright murders in 2006.

Mr Pickover said: "The Prime Minister was as sharp as button on all matters concerning Ipswich and Felixstowe and we are all delighted he knows where Ipswich is, what it can do - and how we can be a Beacon Town in troubled times.

“We'd like him to take our campaign across the country where tackling issues like ours can be a big part of the country's road to recovery."

Mr Hunt discussed transport issues with the Prime Minister, in particular the campaign launched last week jointly by the EADT, EDP, Evening Star and Evening News to improve rail services in the region.

Mr Hunt said: “It was a great opportunity to highlight to the Prime Minister the urgent need to improve our transport links, which currently are not good enough in a number of ways.

"I was very pleased to hear Mr Cameron say that improving the infrastructure was ‘the most important thing’ his government could do for this part of the world.’”