Most candidates will tell you what they believe.

Full statement

I would rather tell you what I have been doing and who I am doing it for.

Mill Hill deserves better than to be an afterthought in someone else's national agenda. Political parties fight elections here, but their loyalty is elsewhere - to their leadership, their whips, their party line. Mine is to you.

I'm standing as an independent candidate alongside my neighbour Frank Orman. Not as a protest, but as a proposition: that this ward is best served by people with no master but the residents who live here.

When I put down roots in Mill Hill, I made a decision: to get involved, not just to settle in. Joining the Mill Hill Residents' Association committee was the natural next step, and it has changed how I see this place. Working alongside Frank Orman for the last few years, week in and week out, for over 2,000 members who care deeply about this community, I stopped thinking of Mill Hill as somewhere I lived and started thinking of it as somewhere I was responsible for.

That sense of responsibility is why I am standing. Frank and I are not career politicians. We have no party telling us what to think or who to answer to. We are two local leaders who have already been actively working for Mill Hill - and who want to do more.

I would be honoured to have your support.