**I am Dave Williams, Labour and Co-operative candidate for Brereton and Ravenhill.

Full statement

I have served this ward as a District Councillor since 2023, and I am asking for your vote on Thursday 7 May to continue that work.**

Before entering local politics I served in the Royal Marines and worked as an NHS physiotherapist. I bring that background to my role as Portfolio Holder for Community Wellbeing and as the council's Armed Forces Champion.

In the last three years I have secured £2.3 million of investment in local leisure facilities, £1.4 million for homelessness prevention, and £140,000 for Flaxley Park. I have kept Chase Leisure Centre and Rugeley Leisure Centre open under a new ten-year contract with no borrowing required. As Armed Forces Champion I have built real links with our local reserve units - bringing civic pride and resilience into the heart of how this council works.

Brereton and Ravenhill has three Labour councillors who work as a team. Together we get more done.

This vote is not about Westminster. It is about your leisure centre, your park, your street. I do not make promises I cannot keep. Three years of results - and more still to do.

Service. Community. Results.