PM's pledge to the region on Tory campaign visit to the East

David Cameron meeting supporters in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex. Credit: ITV News Anglia

The Conservative party has outlined a set of promises made to the East of England to improve transport infrastructure and boost jobs in the region.

The pledges, many of which had already been announced by the coalition government, were presented in the form of a credit-card-sized pledge card.

The details of the East of England plan with unveiled as the Prime Minister embarked on a whistle-stop tour of the region taking in Colchester in Essex and Lowestoft in Suffolk.

Mr Cameron also visited the Clacton constituency his party lost to UKIP in October after the sitting Tory MP Douglas Carswell defected to the anti-EU party.

Among the promises to the East of England outlined by the Conservatives:

  • £4.2 billion investment in road and rail including widening the A12 and improving the A47

  • Create 250,000 extra new jobs

  • Delivery a study into dualling the A120 in Essex

  • Develop a third river crossing in Lowestoft - but no decision until March 2016

Lowestoft is calling for a third river crossing to take pressure off the town's bascule bridge which has to lift to allow access to the harbour. Credit: ITV News Anglia

The Conservative leader David Cameron spoke to ITV Anglia's Political Correspondent Emma Hutchinson while on a visit to Tendring Technology College in Frinton-on-Sea in Essex

David Cameron's visit followed a tour of the East of England by the Labour leader Ed Miliband on Wednesday.