A CONSERVATIVE MP in Worcestershire has agreed to team up with an ex-Labour Home Secretary to campaign over the EU.

Harriett Baldwin, a current member of David Cameron's Government, has formed an unlikely alliance with Jacqui Smith to rally for the 'remain' camp.

Mrs Smith was Britain's first ever female Home Secretary and a big hitter under Gordon Brown's old Labour Government.

The 53-year-old now lives in Malvern and was only the third woman to hold one of the great offices of state, after former premier Margaret Thatcher and ex-Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett.

Mrs Baldwin, a current Treasury minister who is firmly pro-EU, has been touring Britain trying to convince voters to stay in Europe.

The duo will team up to campaign together at events across West Worcestershire, in a bid to shift the momentum.

Mrs Baldwin said: "As the Government minister for financial services, I've been involved in the national campaign to make the case for us to vote to remain in. "Around 285,000 jobs across the UK depend on our access to the single market passport in financial services, our biggest export sector.

"Over the coming weeks I'll be taking part in local events too.

"I'm convinced that as a country we will be stronger, safer and economically better off staying in Europe and keeping our access to the single market will mean more jobs, lower prices and more financial security for local families."

The Tory MP has also created an area of her website for 'facts' over the EU, saying the stakes could not be any higher ahead of June 23.

"This is an issue that affects each and every one of us and the stakes could not be higher, as it's an irreversible decision," she said.

Mrs Smith was MP for Redditch between 1997 and 2010 before losing her seat to Karen Lumley, and was Home Secretary from 2007 to 2009.

After leaving politics she became chair of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, which she does alongside various consultancy work.

The duo's teaming up comes as a Worcestershire councillor released his own 29-page dossier savaging the EU.

Councillor Anthony Warburton, an independent district councillor in Malvern, used to be in the Conservative Party but quit.

He said the write-up was released in response to comments from Mrs Baldwin at a recent speech in London, where she said a Brexit would be "devastating" for jobs.

Councillor Warburton said: "If leaving the EU is a leap in the dark, then staying in is a leap in the dark with both legs shackled together and our arms tied behind our back.

"In leaving it we'd become once again a self-governing democracy, with a genuinely global perspective rather than a little European one.

"We would prosper, we would be free, and we would stand tall - that is what this referendum is about."