I’m 48, I’ve lived in Rugby since 2006, and have brought up my family here. I’ve been a school governor at Northlands Primary School and a trustee of Warwickshire Young Carers. I was born in Manchester and grew up in a village in Gloucestershire, where I developed an appreciation of rural issues.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. If selected by the Labour Party and then elected to be Rugby’s MP by voters, I will be able to work effectively with a Labour-run Borough Council that is reversing decades of Tory neglect, and a Labour government at Westminster, which is committed to devolving power and responsibility to local councils. Together, we will be able to achieve so much more for Rugby.