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Tooting is a great part of London. I would like to help make it even better.

I grew up in and around Tooting and Balham and my family still live here. As a teenager I was in and out of St George’s with various broken bones. My mother worked at St George’s Hospital and sometimes after work would take me for a curry round the corner at Sree Krishna. I grudgingly did my homework in Tooting Library as quickly as I could so that I could go and play cricket on Tooting Common.

Now I live in Du Cane Court just by Balham Station and have my office just off Garratt Lane in Earlsfield. It’s good to be standing for Parliament in the place I call home.

However, our area faces a number of challenges.

• Our economy is a mess and is affecting everyone from City lawyers to corner shop owners.
• For ten years Wandsworth has been stripped of police which is why we so rarely see one.
  
• St George’s Hospital keeps making cuts because ten years of extra spending has paradoxically left it with huge debts
  
• Young people can’t get onto the property ladder because the deposit they need is rising faster than the house prices are declining.
  
• Commuting is a misery in overcrowded trains while our stations have no lifts.
  
• We want a more cared for environment but know that this is often more challenging when the economy is sinking.
  

In short, Tooting deserves a fairer deal.  Please join me in helping make that happen.

Promoted by R Morritt on behalf of Tooting Conservatives, both of 3 Summerstown, London, SW17 0QB