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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