£5.9 billion of dirty money is tied up in UK property, enough to buy AFC Bournemouth 49 times over.

That’s money that we could be using to fill potholes, fund schools and hospitals, improve access to the police and ensure GPs are accessible.

The status quo isn’t working. It’s never worked. Unless ‘working’ means to serve the super-rich while everyone else struggles to get onto the housing ladder.

I won’t put up with this. In a debate I co-sponsored in Parliament, I told the Government to get tough on British offshore tax havens at the heart of tax dodging. Britain’s overseas territories must share public information about who controls and profits from the firms based there.

I know some of you are thinking, “Well good luck with that!” But, on the 11^th of October, Monserrat announced that it would do what I’ve been calling for: a public register. I’m going to keep that pressure up, so all British territories do the same

After all, you’re paying your taxes in good order. HMRC is quick to act when you underpay or are late sending your tax return. I don’t see why big multinational corporations and the richest should be allowed to make money here and not pay back to our country.

It’s a scandal. Nobody wants to be taken for a ride. Why should children lose out on education, and everyone lose out on health because the rich don’t fund services like you do?

What happens in Bournemouth is impacted by what overseas tax havens can get away with. You never see a Bobby on the beat, your playgrounds are locked up or broken, you’re struggling to see a dentist, and our high streets are neglected. We’re getting on with fixing these problems, but it costs money that tax dodgers aren’t paying into Britain.

I said I wouldn’t disappear into Westminster and get caught up in that bubble. The work I do there will always be in the service of what Bournemouth needs.

As renters told me at a roundtable last week, the state of their housing is exploitative. That’s why Labour is creating a fairer balance between tenants and landlords by banning Section 21 evictions and acting against landlords if they’re falling short of their legal obligations.

As a local school games organiser told me, we need more play opportunities for children, which is why I’m trying to change the law. And pupils at Bournemouth School for Girls who visited me in Parliament told me about their hopes for a fairer democracy, which is why I’m calling for proportional representation and tougher restrictions on political financing.

As your MP, I’m bringing free breakfast clubs to local primary schools, fighting for our fair share of the £22.6bn of additional money for our NHS, campaigning for better playgrounds, finally getting those lifts into Pokesdown Station, and cutting passenger journey times between London Waterloo and Bournemouth.

We’re just getting started, but I know that, together, our town can and will turn things around.