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For me it's more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

I'm kind of a builder of institutions. I think I've got some ability to look at what's out here, look at a playing field, and identify gaps and niches.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

While we celebrate our diversity, what surprises me time and time again as I travel around the constituency is that we are far more united and have far more in common with each other than things that divide us.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.