IT is now well over a fortnight since Emily Thornberry MP, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, visited Colchester.

Readers of the Gazette may wish to know why this wasn’t featured in their local paper.

The truth is so would I!

Can you imagine if the actual Foreign Secretary (Boris the Buffoon) made a visit to our town?

Would that be featured on these pages? I think we all know the answer to that.

Now I am not accusing the Gazette of political bias because I know they go out of their way to remain impartial but this was, surely, a serious omission.

A visit to Colchester by one of Labour’s most senior figures is clearly newsworthy.

The media was informed of the visit in advance and this was acknowledged and then, after the event, a report was given and a photo sourced. So why did nothing appear?

Perhaps the Gazette will compensate by using that photograph of Emily’s extremely successful campaigning visit to Colchester to accompany this letter.