“I feel I can serve to the best of my abilities, and where I feel I can make a real difference, and further their cause.”

The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Be nice to everyone and all that.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

People have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.

I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks.

There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

For me it’s more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community

After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour

The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging.

But also utilise the youth media they relate to to better connect them to our message.

I’m the first to admit I’ve had a sheltered life.

We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

I grew up in the country and went to a boarding school. It was all just part of the business

With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives

I’ve studied people with uncanny abilities – card counters who can beat the house, self-taught artists, people who can remember an unbelievable amount of information. Here’s the thing: These weren’t innate skills – they were acquired.

Most people assume that folks with amazing mental abilities were born this way and that they operate on a plane that’s inaccessible to the rest of us. But nothing could be further from the truth. For more than a decade,

I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.

Trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.

I was so thankful that my parents trusted me enough and had enough faith in my abilities to let me follow my passion and try to do something great, even if I might fail.