WORCESTER MP Robin Walker today sets out his new priorities - pledging to put a £25 million hospital upgrade and better school funding at the top of his agenda.

The jubilant Conservative, who is heading back to the Commons today after a dramatic General Election victory, spent the weekend beefing up his own 'wish list' for the new Government.

Your Worcester News can exclusively reveal:

- Mr Walker will make better school funding his immediate priority and has already contacted Education Secretary Nicky Morgan, who was re-appointed by David Cameron on Saturday night, to ask that they work together on it

- He intends to push for a revamp of Worcestershire Royal's A&E and is planning to meet Harry Turner, chairman of the county's NHS trust, imminently to discuss what is needed

- A £70 million dualling of the A4440 Carrington Bridge, a campaign which was building momentum before last week's election, will also take centre stage as he lobbies ministers to try and make it happen

- The newly re-elected MP has heaped praise on Labour's defeated candidate Councillor Joy Squires, and says he intends to take on her impassioned plea to get wages rising in Worcester

Mr Walker romped home with a 5,646 majority last Thursday, a shock outcome which saw him nearly double his majority from the previous 2010 figure of 2,982.

He said: "Better school funding is an absolute top priority, and now I've been re-elected I'm going to press on with it.

"I think the 'flat cash' offer under the new Government is a better deal than we would have had under Labour (which was going to increase it in line with inflation) because of the pupil premium, but it still needs to go up.

"The starting point is that our schools are already £6 million better off because of the fairer funding campaign but I've already contacted Nicky Morgan to say 'congratulations, I look forward to working with you' on delivering more funding.

"I also intend to contact new MPs in the f40 areas (parts of the country with the lowest per-pupil school funding rates) to brief them on it, including reaching out to new people in the Labour Party who might not realise how this campaign could help them."

He also said an upgrade of the royal's A&E, as pledged before the election, must take on huge importance.

"There's clearly got to be a hospital upgrade and hopefully now the election's out of the way, that clinical review can be published," he said.

"Hopefully the size and nature of the election result should take any politics out of it, we need to address the needs for the whole of Worcestershire."

As well as the Carrington Bridge dualling, he told your Worcester News Councillor Squires' plea to increase wages is something he will take on.

"I will take things away from all the candidates, and credit to Joy - she highlighted the need for better pay and I agree with her," he said.

"That seems to be place we're all getting to, I do want to see progress on this."

Like great swathes of the rest of the nation Mr Walker benefitted from an unprecedented collapse in Lib Dem support in Worcester, which tumbled 82 per cent compared to the 2010 contest, from 9,525 votes to just 1,677 last Thursday.

Lib Dem candidate Federica Smith was one of 340 party hopefuls to lose her deposit.

Cllr Squires' 16,888 votes was more than 500 up on Labour's 2010 General Election performance, but Mr Walker's tally of 22,534 was a personal surge of more than 3,100.

"I always wanted to increase my majority, but if someone said it'd go up by that much I'd have scolded them for being over-optimistic," he said.

"It's a phenomenal result all round, but it did reflect what we were seeing on the doorsteps, I have to say."

His first job starts at 11am today when the 1922 Committee meets - all the Tory backbenchers.

MR WALKER'S MAJORITY IS THE CITY'S LARGEST SINCE 2001

THE above graph illustrates Mr Walker’s resounding victory in Worcester - with a Tory tidal wave resulting in a significant majority.

The MP’s total share of the vote was 45 per cent last Thursday, with 22,534 people backing his party compared to 16,888 for Labour’s Joy Squires.

You’d have to go back to 2001 to see such a decisive outcome in the city, when former Labour MP Mike Foster secured 21,478 votes, 48 per cent of the total share, giving him a 5,766 majority.

The last time any Worcester MP got more individual votes was in 1997, when Mr Foster benefited from the Tony Blair landslide to garner 25,848.

It was also the worst Lib Dem result in the city's General Election history.