Labour Party Candidates Pledge
Posted by labourblogger on June 29, 2009
Nigel Knowles Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Wyre Forest.
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Given the grim situation regarding MP’s expenses (not all of them) and the public’s justified reaction, the Labour Party has drawn up a “Candidates Pledge” which I have signed and returned by post today.
The Pledge reads, ” The Labour Party is a great movement for change, made up of people determined to serve the public interest and not their own”
As a Labour candidate:
* I seek elected office for the honour of serving the public and our democracy not for personal gain.
* If elected I will subscribe to high standards of integrity, transparency, accountability, and prudence with public money.
* Constituents will always come first and I will comply with the current and any new rules on outside earnings.
* I will publish online my full salary and parliamentary allowances.
* I believe it a duty to hold regular meetings, engagement events and surgeries with my community and constituents and will do so.
* I will communicate regularly with my electorate and will be available through email, telephone and other means to my constituents.
* I will regularly report back to my constituency party as well as to my constituents.
