Emma Reynolds, Shadow Housing Minister, has submitted her nomination papers as Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Wolverhampton North East. Emma is seeking re-election as a Member of Parliament and was selected by her local Labour party to stand again for Parliament last year.
Her nomination papers were handed in at the Civic Centre on Thursday 2 April. They have been signed by people across the constituency, including by Cllr Steve Evans of Fallings Park who is chair of the local Labour Party, Cllr Bhupinder Gahkal of Wednesfield South, Patricia May and Essie Lewis MBE.

Emma said “I am standing to seek re-election to be the Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton North East. This Tory-led government is not delivering for Wolverhampton. It has made people in Wolverhampton £1,600 a year worse off since they came to power. The cost of energy bills, childcare and other essentials has rocketed while wages have flat lined. They have done nothing to help people with the cost of living, while at the same time cutting taxes for the richest one per cent of people in our country.

“Labour has a better plan for working people in Wolverhampton. A Labour government will make work pay by increasing the minimum wage to £8 an hour and banning the use of exploitative zero-hours contracts. We will take on the Big Six energy companies with a cap on your energy bills until 2017 to save you money while we reform the energy market and we will scrap the Tories’ bedroom tax, build more homes and give private renters a better deal. As the Housing Minister, I will drive through these changes in a Labour government.

“Crucially, we will protect our NHS so that it has the time to care for you and your family when you need it. Labour will guarantee you an appointment with a GP within 48 hours and invest in 20,000 more nurses, 8,000 extra GPs and 5,000 additional home care workers. This will be funded by a clamp down on tax avoidance, a levy on tobacco firms and a mansion tax on properties worth over £2 million.

“You have a clear choice at this General Election between a Tory government which has cut taxes for millionaires and will make extreme cuts to our public services, or a Labour government which will balance the books in a fair way and transform the economy so that it works for people on low and middle incomes, not just a few at the top.”