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Finchley And Golders Green: Labour's Sarah Sackman Wins
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1 year ago
Finchley And Golders Green: Labour's Sarah Sackman Wins
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Thank you, thank you, thank you to the returning officer, my fellow candidates, all those who
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volunteered at polling stations, the police and the staff at this count. The country has
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called for change and we, as the Labour Party, have a duty to deliver. People have given
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us a mandate and a responsibility to build a different society. A society where nurses
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aren't forced to visit food banks, where women and girls aren't afraid to walk home at night,
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where we act when we see the planet on fire, and where we welcome rather than demonise
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those like my ancestors who come to this country fleeing persecution. We have a responsibility
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to restore people's trust in politics. In recent years, our democracy has been shown
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to be fragile. Politics in this country has become a darker place. We have witnessed the
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murder of two MPs, and Finching Golders Green has felt this fragility in a particular way.
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Mike Freer, my predecessor, was forced to step down due to the abuse he faced. We may
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have had our differences over policy, but we should have had the opportunity to face
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each other at the ballot box. I pay tribute to his many years of dedicated service and
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work for the people of Finching Golders Green. And I'm grateful too to my fellow candidates
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who were able to fight this election based on our ideas and the way in which they've
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conducted this campaign. I am so honoured that the people of Finching Golders Green
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have put their trust in me. This place where I was born and raised. This place that represents
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so much about what is great about this country. Values of hard work, aspiration, looking out
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for your neighbour, and a place where we see our diversity as our strength. The last 14
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years have put a strain upon those values, but we have shown that as a community that
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hope will triumph over hate. Today, my community, like so many across the country, is crying
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out for hope. After I lost in 2015, I felt that hope drain away. Against a backdrop of
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populism and a Brexit, the Labour Party lost its way. In particular, it let down the Jewish
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community. The Labour Party needed to change and under Keir Starmer's leadership, it has
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changed. I'm glad that a Labour Party can once again, a changed Labour Party, be a beacon
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of hope to all communities that make up this special place. Now I promise to be your local
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champion and your public servant, whomever you voted for. It's a promise I make for the
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young woman in Crookwood who I met holding down two cleaning jobs just to keep the heating on.
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It's a promise I make to the mother on the Grange Estate with mould in her flat. It's a
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promise I make to the elderly couple who have waited over a year for their vital operations.
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I promise to be a public servant so that my daughters and all our children have the
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future that they deserve. Thank you to my beautiful daughters and my husband for being
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so patient in this campaign. I promise as your mum, your wife and as your MP,
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I will be keeping up our traditions and I will never miss a Friday night dinner.
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