Edinburgh MP on his first year in Parliament

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The MP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh Chris Murray has said it’s been “fantastic” being out in his constituency and meeting with communities during his first year and has encouraged residents to have their say on how up to £20m of UK government funding is spent in Edinburgh.

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00:00It's been a great first year as an MP for Edinburgh East and Musselburgh.

00:02It feels like a hundred years I've been an MP because there's been so much that we've been doing.

00:06Whether that's getting the most money ever for Scotland in the devolution settlement in its history,

00:11whether that's the Employment Rights Act which is banning things like dealers' contracts and

00:15firing rehire, whether it's getting a supercomputer to Edinburgh University which is going to make us

00:20one of the world leaders in new technology. It's been a wild year and of course been out in the

00:24constituency with the fantastic communities. It's just been fantastic. The big one is the

00:28same as all over the country, it's the cost of living and people feeling like their money isn't

00:32going far enough. So we're trying a lot of policy to try and deal with that, getting the energy bills

00:37down, getting the cost of living down, interest rate cuts, that's really helping people with their

00:41mortgages. But in Edinburgh specifically, a couple of issues. One is sewage on the beaches at Portobello,

00:47so we're doing a big campaign to try and deal with that. Another one is the fantastic cultural

00:53situation that we have in Edinburgh. In August we're the world capital of culture and that's

00:57brilliant but it comes with some downsides like phone reception and trying to get through

01:02the city centre so working with people on that and a whole host of other issues like climate change,

01:07the housing situation that we have in Edinburgh, rents in particular have got really high and a

01:12whole host of other issues. It was a great announcement this week by the UK Government which

01:15I was so thrilled about. I've been able to secure from them £20 million to spend in Edinburgh,

01:21making our fantastic place to live an even better place to live. So now what's going to happen is I'm

01:26going to be reaching out to people across the community asking them how could this money be

01:30best spent for us. Is it roads? Is it community centres? Is it parks? I've got a survey out on

01:37my website just now and I'm out knocking on doors getting people's views. What do we need to do to

01:41make Edinburgh a great place to live even better and £20 million from the UK Government is fantastic for us.

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