HIGH-PROFILE Tories turned celebrities Neil and Christine Hamilton will be stopping off in Stourbridge tonight (Tuesday) as part of their campaigning efforts after defecting to UKIP.

The husband and wife team, who reinvented themselves as media personalities and panto stars after former Conservative MP Neil Hamilton's involvement in the Cash for Questions political scandal of the mid 1990s, will be giving a talk at The Britannia pub in Wollaston from around 8.30pm.

Mr Hamilton, who stood down as a minister in John Major's government in 1994 and lost his seat at the 1997 election, was elected to UKIP's national executive committee two years ago and has been earmarked to oversee the party's campaign in the 2014 Euro elections.

The sold out get together with the Hamiltons at The Britannia, in Wollaston High Street, is part of the regular Evening of Political Spice talks organised by the Stourbridge branch of UKIP to help raise the party's profile.

A previous talk, held at The Kingfisher in Wall Heath, not only gained plenty of column inches in newspapers across the country but sparked a nationwide furore after outspoken Godfrey Bloom was videoed saying Britain should stop sending aid to 'bongo bongo land'.

For more details about future Stourbridge UKIP events and speakers visit website http://www.ukipstourbridge.org/