At the Gainsborough Conservatives' general and local election campaign launch in Gainsborough on Monday, 30th March 2015 Sir Edward Leigh joined with Conservative councillors and candidates to launch their campaigns and the West Lindsey District Council Conservative Group Manifesto.

Sir Edward made it clear that he would be visiting all 120 villages within the constituency in the comming weeks and looked forward to being re-elected. He said:

"Ed Miliband is a throwback. He's not entirely convincing on immigration, Europe, dealing with the deficit. Two million immigrants entered Britain during the Labour years. At least the Conservatives will try and control immigration.

"If we want jobs and prosperity, you have to have a balanced economy. I am confident we will win on the day, but it's going to be tight."

West Lindsey District Council Conservative Group Leader, Cllr. Jeff Summers, was confident that the Conservatives would make gains in the number of Conservatives on the Council in the poll, taking place at the same time as the general eleciton, on Thursday, 7th May. He said:

"We have achieved significant efficientcies during a period of austerity when we have had to suffer £3million of cuts from government by re-engineering the way we work and creating greater efficiencies. We have been able to create a budget for the next year with no council tax increase. This is the theme I would like to continue with."