Affordable homes are needed to support local families and the local economy. But new housing should not come at the expense of our precious areas of outstanding natural beauty or be driven through without the infrastructure needed to support new residents.
Westminster should be making it easier for you to get around, not harder. That’s why I have opposed Sadiq Khan’s rash and self-serving ULEZ policy, Government has forced TfL to backtrack on their planned axing of Day Travelcards, and fought off plans to close train ticket offices.
One thing that struck me in my first couple of years as your MP is that no matter who I was visiting – whether I was at a school, community group, or speaking to the police – the human cost of loneliness came up time and time again.