Former Minister of State for School Standards, Stephen Twigg, has backed the 2356percent Facebook campaign for fairer payday loan APRs.

Stephen, who is Labour's parliamentary candidate for Liverpool West Derby at this year's General Election, has joined members of the campaign group at the social networking site in order to lend his support to the campaign for fairer lending rates to cash-strapped consumers.

The two-week old campaign now has the support of more than 170 members at its Facebook Group