The leader of the House of Commons took to the streets with High Wycombe’s MP this weekend in a bid to win over Leave voters as the EU referendum campaign steps up a gear.

MPs Chris Grayling and Steve Baker rallied together with a raft of campaigners outside All Saints Church yesterday (Saturday), in a bid to persuade the people of High Wycombe that they would be better off leaving the EU.

Mr Grayling – who grew up in the county and attended Royal Grammar School – remained adamant that the numerous businesses that line the streets of Wycombe would not face economic uncertainty should the leave campaign win.

He said: “It is always good to come back to High Wycombe because I went to school here I went to the RGS years ago.

“Wycombe is a great town. It has a whole raft of small businesses and they are the ones that are affected by European regulation.

“The extra cost, the extra paraphernalia and often with a small business owners it’s their Sunday nights doing extra bureaucratic work which is no benefit to their operations at all.

“So a vast number of small businesses affected by something they have no control over and no involvement over and that makes a real difference to them.”

MPs and activists from both sides were campaigning across the country yesterday as the debate heats up ahead of the referendum on June 23.

Mr Baker took the chance to hail the support received from the people of High Wycombe across the political spectrum over the course of his campaign. 

Mr Grayling – who used to present Wycombe Hospital radio - went on to say healthcare services across Bucks would be constrained should the UK remain.

He said: “The other thing for Wycombe is I don’t believe we can carry on the situation where we have unlimited migration in to this country.

“It puts huge pressure on the health service and the more people that come and live here the more pressure it puts on the services.

“It just puts more and more pressure on local services, health services and housing and it’s going to mean that we lose more greenbelt land across High Wycombe as we struggle to keep up with the people coming in to the UK.”

Wycombe's Liberal Democrats were also out in force supporting the remain campaign, saying they believe workers rights are stronger in Europe.