A GROUP has been set up to oust anti-fox hunting MPs in a possible General Election - with Worcester MP Mike Foster among top targets.

Vote-OK aims to use pro-hunting volunteers to campaign for MPs' opponents. They would be taught to promote the candidate's views but not push a pro-hunting agenda.

It comes after Mr Foster, the Worcester MP who introduced a private members' bill against hunting in 1997, was named in a list produced by The Field magazine of 50 MPs who "deserve the boot".

However, Vote-OK founder Charles Mann, said he preferred constituents of each MP to take part and admitted having doubts whether city residents were passionate enough about hunting to take part.

"We are responding to a groundswell of a spirit of anger that people want to transmit into politics," said Mr Mann, from Oxfordshire.

"The problem we haven't resolved is when there is someone like Mike Foster who is an urban-based MP.

"One wants to try to get constituency support - I don't know what the argument is like in the city but I imagine it is not an issue that raises many voices."

Mr Foster said he understood another hunting group, called Vote Hunting, had offered support to his likely Tory opponent, Margaret Harper.

"We will see the Conservative Party supported heavily by pro-hunting organisations. That's the nature of politics and why it's going to be an incredibly tough fight," he added.

Mrs Harper was unaware of any support being given to her by pro-hunting groups and had no view on whether she would welcome their backing.

because she had not been approached.