I would like to ask for your support to once again become your Labour Party candidate for Stevenage at the next general election. You put your trust in me at the last General Election and, together, we fought an excellent campaign. I am confident that we can win this key seat back at the next election. We must win it back. I’m asking you to trust me again, and help bring Stevenage home to Labour.
Under our Labour Government, our schools and hospital were being rebuilt. Our Children’s Centres were open. We were starting to build homes again. Getting our young people into work through the Future Jobs Fund. And crime was down by 40% thanks to our investment in frontline policing and community support staff.
Eighteen months into a Tory-led government and Stevenage now faces unemployment rates twice those of 2010. One in four of our young people has no work or training, abandoned by a Government that cares more about scrapping the 50p tax rate for top earners than re-building our economy. A government that will ‘find’ £250 million for an environmentally disastrous gimmick on bin collections…at the same time as it sacks people from our armed forces and withdraws benefits from terminally ill patients. And a Tory and LibDem government hell bent on tearing apart our National Health Service.
The fight back starts on 24 October
Many local members already know me, and know that I love campaigning. As Leader of Stevenage Council, I already have a high profile in our community, as well as with the local media. But it is only by taking Labour’s message out on the doorstep, into the town centre and the villages, community groups…connecting with local people…listening to them…that we will win it for Labour.
I grew up here. Raised my family here. I know Stevenage, its people, their hopes and aspirations, because they’re my hopes and aspirations.
Together. let’s bring Stevenage home to Labour.