Former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, will officially declare next Tuesday that he will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for President of the United States, according to sources close to Romney.
Romney will head back to his home state of Michigan to make the announcement. Its the same state that Romney's father, former Governor of Michigan announced his bid for the 1968 nomination.
He is due to give a speech at the Henry Ford Museum, with a tour in the following days of key early primary states.