THE Prime Minister took an early morning canal bike ride in Stourbridge with West Midlands Mayor Andy Street in a final pre-polling day push for votes.
Boris Johnson stopped to speak and take photos with a few members of the public as he said Mr Street would "boost skills and drive long term growth in jobs" if re-elected after Thursday's election.
The pair knocked on a few doors and handed leaflets out at a Kwik-Fit garage after a bike ride along the Stourbridge Canal this morning (Wednesday).
He also stopped off at Stourbridge Football Club.
Asked on his visit to Stourbridge what people had been saying about Mr Street, the PM said: "Well I found a lot of support obviously for Andy who I think has done an amazing job over the last few years.
"But it's going to be very close and I think it's a good opportunity for people to get out and vote tomorrow for Andy Street who has a fantastic agenda to take the West Midlands forward.
"I've been working with him for years now - he's brilliant at getting funding for projects here in the West Midlands but he also has a vision for the whole area.
"The connection between transport and extending the metro to Dudley, getting £1 billion of investment in Dudley town centre, getting Goldman Sachs, a huge American bank, to put their tech hub in Birmingham now.
"That's all part of what he wants to do to put in transport infrastructure investment, boost skills, and drive long term growth in jobs."
He added: "I think Andy Street has done an absolutely outstanding job and I would say, as I'm a backer of Andy's, that I think he would do a much better job than the other candidates.
"What he offers is a programme of growth and regeneration and knowing how to build new homes and create new opportunities on brownfield sites.
"If you look for instance at the HS2 interchange at Solihull, it's fantastic.
"That's an opportunity to create literally thousands of new homes, but not on greenfield sites, and it's a way of driving jobs and growth here for the long term - that's what Andy does."
Former John Lewis boss Andy Street faces competition from current Labour MP for Birmingham Hodge Hill, Liam Byrne, who is opposing him in the mayoral race.
Jenny Wilkinson is the Liberal Democrat candidate, Steve Caudwell is representing the Green Party and Pete Durnell is standing for Reform UK.
The results are expected to be announced on Saturday afternoon.
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