Tributes paid to Andrew McClure after chairman’s death during Broadland and Fakenham Conservative Association meeting

Tributes have been paid to a Conservative chairman who died during a recent meeting.

Andrew McClure, who was the chairman of the Broadland and Fakenham Conservative Association, collapsed at the group’s gathering last week.

Reports in other media outlets say he had just finished asking a question when he fell from his chair.

The BBC said that he died moments later despite the best efforts of the East of England Ambulance Service, which sent an air ambulance to the meeting in Bungay, Suffolk.

Jerome Mayhew, the Conservative MP for Broadland and Fakenham, said: "Andrew was an unassuming, gentle man, who was selfless. He was a man of service and I am going to miss him immensely.

"He was the brick of my association and instrumental in my re-election campaign.

"As a volunteer, he worked in the constituency office seven days a week during that campaign and I don't know if I'd have been re-elected without the efforts he put in.

"Associations always have their tensions, but Andrew was someone who was a peacemaker - so good at bringing people together in a quiet and unassuming way.

"I think he got great pleasure out of being part of the community and part of the association and he gave us an immense amount."