The Fordham family from Little Horsted, near Uckfield, have politics of all colours running through their blood.

Farmer Jim Fordham is a Conservative member of Wealden District Council while his daughter-in-law is the Labour parliamentary candidate.

Jim's niece, Belinda, is married to Mark Oaten, the Liberal Democrat MP who hopes to successfully defend his seat at Winchester.

As a family they are close but politically they are polls apart.