I am delighted and honoured to have been chosen to contest the next General Election in Cambridge for Labour.

At the last election, many thousands of Cambridge voters backed the Liberal Democrats based on a series of promises: to abolish student tuition fees; not to raise VAT; to stimulate the economy and maintain jobs. Instead, they see Julian Huppert going through the division lobbies supporting Conservative policies which they find abhorrent: privatizing our National Health Service; pursuing budget cuts which drive our economy into recession; destroying our locally accountable education system; and introducing savage and cruel cuts to our welfare system. My task over the next period is to persuade those disappointed former Liberal Democrat supporters that Labour with Ed Miliband offers  the positive, progressive alternative that they are looking for.