Martin Wrigley MP Newton Abbot

Martin Wrigley speaks after becoming MP for Newton Abbot in the 2024 General Election

Transcript

00:00Thank you very much. Thank you. Firstly I'd like to say a big thank you to the police,

00:22to the returning officer, all the election staff and all of the many folks who have been

00:27here counting and those who are staffing the polling stations all day. Thank you. I'd also

00:32like to thank the other counters for their clean campaigns. Thank you. And a massive thanks to my

00:38agent and the Lib Dem team, all volunteers who have helped this campaign in so many ways. It's

00:43been a long six weeks and thank you so much for what we have achieved. This has been a momentous

00:49day. I'm so grateful to the voters of Newton Abbott constituency for giving me their trust

00:55to be their representative in Parliament. Thank you. I will do my best for you, our constituency

01:02and our country. The country has changed after today. Now we have hope that things will start

01:09to get better. We must put behind us the years of taking Newton Abbott constituency in Devon

01:15for granted, leaving our hospitals, schools and roads underfunded. We must move out of this cost

01:22of living crisis, which collided with the cost of housing crisis, all the while allowing big

01:27energy companies and banks to continue to make enormous profits. It doesn't have to be like this.

01:34I know that things can change for the better. I'm proud the Liberal Democrats of Cambridge

01:40started building council homes for the first time in a generation and now at Westminster I'll do

01:46everything I can to get the new government to enable more councils to build more council homes.

01:52We will do everything we can to stop water companies pumping sewage into our rivers and

01:56seas and to stop them putting shareholders before customers and the environment. It's

02:02not going to be easy but now we can start to make a brighter future. Thank you very much.