Events since 2020 have reluctantly led me to the conclusion that the existing main parties have been promoting policies that do not have the UK’s best interests at heart.

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Reform UK is different, and I am therefore delighted to be standing as a Reform UK Candidate for Twickenham at the upcoming General Election.

As MP, I will fight for both local and national issues. For example, all the main parties currently support energy policies that will inevitably lead to great impoverishment of UK citizens – all to no purpose. The Liberal Democrats’ Nick Clegg vetoed clean & green nuclear power in 2010 because it would “only come on stream in 2021 or 2022”: just think how different things would be now if that infrastructure spend (at historically low interest rates) had gone ahead.

I would encourage everyone to read Reform UK’s Contract, which outlines how we will make the UK a better, safer and fairer place for all. On key policy matters, Reform UK will be fighting for the future of our children and grandchildren such that they can enjoy the quality of life that many of us aspire to. The current established parties – Conservative, Labour, Lib Dem and Green – are a vote for old politics and more of the same failures

By way of background, I run my own business and am an independent non-executive director for various UK companies. I am a physicist / engineer by education and a corporate financier by training. I am married to Anna and we have two young daughters. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my family, swimming and writing (I write for Reaction.life (https://reaction.life/author/alex-starling/), the HART Group (https://www.hartgroup.org/news/), and also have my own blog (https://alexstarling77.substack.com/).