Labour’s prospective MP for Truro and Falmouth, Charlotte MacKenzie, today pledged to maintain high standards as an elected representative and politician.

Charlotte MacKenzie said: “I would like all our elected representatives and politicians to help to clean up politics by subscribing to this pledge. There are too many examples – including some local ones – where MPs have let down their constituents and seem to have put self-interest ahead of the people they were elected to serve.”

The Labour pledge reads, “As a Labour candidate:

I seek elected office for the honour of serving the public and our democracy;

I will subscribe to high standards of integrity, transparency, accountability and prudence with public money;

I will publish online my full salary and parliamentary allowances;

I believe it a duty to hold regular meetings, engagement events and surgeries with my community and constituents and will do so;

I will communicate regularly with my electorate and will be available through email, telephone and other means to my constituents;

I will regularly report back to my constituency party as well as to my constituents.”