Nominations for candidates standing in the General Elections have closed today (11 May 2017) and the list of candidates has been published. LS10 and LS11 sit within the Leeds Central constituency, represented since 1999 by Hilary Benn for Labour.
The candidates are as follows:
BENN, Hilary – Labour Party
CARLISLE, Ed – Green Party
COETZEE, Alex – Christian Peoples Alliance
DAVIES, Gareth – The Conservative Party Candidate
NASH, Andy – Liberal Democrats
PALFREMAN, Bill – UK Independence Party (UKIP)
South Leeds Life will be inviting all the candidates to state their reasons for standing and we will be putting the following questions to them, chosen from those submitted by our readers:
Questions
As a registered nurse since 1995 and having left the NHS in 2006 due to burnout because of exhaustion from long-term short staffing, I am now happily working in the private nursing sector – what will you be doing to improve the NHS in order to a) make me consider voting for you, and b) tempt me back to the NHS as a much needed registered nurse?
Stella Wallace
In a rapidly growing city, how would you ensure the city is more proactive rather than reactive when it comes to developments and the infrastructure around them. Leeds City Council seems to give the green light to many developments of housing or retail parks without any or minimal thought to local infrastructure such as roads, schools and health care.
Wayne Dixon
How do you intend to stop the burglaries, unsociable behaviour etc that’s occurring in the Beeston area now? This is affecting people of all ages, race and religion!
Judy Sismey
Voting takes place on Thursday 8 June. In order to vote you must be on the electoral register by Monday 22 May.
If you are already registered to vote you do not need to re-register. If you do need to register you must now do this online here: www.electoralcommission.org.uk/. You will need your National Insurance number and the process only takes a few minutes.
