In a world in which opportunity is heavily linked to digital skills and awareness, every family and every child needs access to IT equipment and the internet. If we’re to solve poverty in the UK and in Mansfield, we must address digital exclusion. Whether it’s accessing education, the social security system, job opportunities or cheaper gas and electricity, it’s a core part of how we live and impacts us all.

I hear on a daily basis the struggle to access front line services such as GP appointments, and I will fight for investment in our NHS system to improve this. Together we must be ambitious, commit to bringing down waiting lists, improve GP access, recruit more doctors and nurses, and build a functioning integrated care service for the future.

I remember growing up in Mansfield, and the productive local economy in coal mining, engineering and textiles which provided well paid and fulfilling careers for all, but our local economy did not recover from the 1980s deindustrialisation. It’s now time for a new Labour government to take a different approach to the scale of challenge that we face. In government, I will champion Mansfield for enhanced public and private investment to create a new economy for working people, that delivers once more on prosperity and quality of life for all.