Conservative leader Michael Howard is due to complete his two-day tour of the Midlands today by visiting Worcestershire and Warwickshire.
Mr Howard will meet pupils at a Worcester secondary school and Tory candidates hoping to win seats on the city council at the June elections.
He will also visit a chemist at a Redditch shopping centre to discuss the effects of crime on traders before heading to Stratford-on-Avon to open a new shop.
The opposition leader will be hoping to draw a line under the controversy surrounding MP Ann Winterton which overshadowed the first leg of his tour yesterday.
Mr Howard suspended the 62-year-old member for Congleton, Cheshire, from the Parliamentary Party after she reportedly made an offensive joke about the Morecambe bay cockling tragedy at a Whitehall dinner.
Mrs Winterton is said to have told a joke in which a shark, fed up of eating fish, says: "Let's go to Morecambe for a Chinese."
Mrs Winterton defied calls on her to make an apology, insisting in a statement that "it has never been her practice to discuss publicly conversations which took place at a private dinner party in a private flat."
