Morse,
of course.

Holborn and St Pancras is one of the most expensive places to live in the country, and the people who make it work (nurses, teachers, cooks, cleaners, students, pensioners) are being priced out of their own postcodes.

I will vote against anything that adds to household bills unless someone shows me the maths. I will vote for anything that lowers them: more homes, cheaper energy, real competition in the markets that overcharge Londoners, and a transport system that doesn't punish you for going to work.

We have world-class hospitals on our doorstep and people who still can't get a doctor's appointment. I'll fight for GP capacity first, because that's the front door to everything else.

I will publish waiting times for every GP practice and hospital serving this constituency, every month, in a form a human can read. What gets measured in public gets fixed.

The people who lose to inflation are savers, pensioners, renters and anyone paid a wage. Nobody in Westminster feels it the way a family on a fixed budget does, and they should.

I'll vote against spending that pushes prices up and for the unglamorous work that brings them down: build more, generate more, and open up the markets where a handful of firms set your bills.

Camden has some of the highest rough-sleeping counts in London, concentrated around our stations. We have treated it as a policing problem and a charity problem for thirty years. It is a housing problem.

Housing First: get people a home, then treat the addiction, the illness, the debt. It's cheaper than the revolving door of hostels, A&E and custody, and it works. I'll publish the count every month and the cost every quarter.

Government asks for more money before it proves it can spend what it has. I'd reverse the order. I'll vote against tax rises on working people and push for the tedious, unglamorous audit of where the money goes now.

Every meeting in my diary, published. Every vote in the Commons, explained in plain English within 24 hours. Every pound of expenses, online, itemised. Every lobbyist who wants a meeting can have one, and it goes straight in the public diary.

An MP works for roughly 90,000 people. There's no excuse for any of them not knowing what he's doing.

I've built companies. I know what a rates bill, a late invoice and a licensing hearing do to a small business, because I've had all three. The cafes, pubs, barbers, market traders, workshops and studios of this constituency employ more people than any single corporation here, and get treated worse by every level of government.

Lower business rates for independents on our high streets. Faster, cheaper licensing. Every big development that gets planning permission signs a local hiring commitment, with apprenticeships for young people and real routes back into work for people over fifty. When public money is spent here, local firms bid first.

This is one of the most mixed constituencies in Britain, and it works because people show up for each other: food banks run out of church halls, mosques feeding rough sleepers, residents' associations fighting for a lift to get fixed, students tutoring kids on the estate next door.

I'll back the groups doing that work with an MP's time, an MP's platform and an MP's ability to get funding moving. A volunteering hub for the constituency that matches people who have an hour with organisations that need one. And an MP who turns up to the iftar, the seder, the carol service, the Diwali lights and the Sunday league final, because that's the job.

I'll introduce a bill for a two-term limit on MPs. It won't pass, because the people voting on it are the people it limits. So I'll apply it to myself and let the others explain why they shouldn't have to.

Within a fifteen-minute walk of Somers Town and the Regent's Park estate sit some of the most valuable companies on earth, plus UCL, the Crick and the British Library. Right now they're a campus with a moat. The people inside earn six figures and eat in subsidised canteens; the people outside walk past the security barriers on the way to a zero-hours shift. That's not anyone's fault, but it is fixable, and fixing it is exactly what a local MP is for.

I'd bring every major employer in King's Cross to one table and agree a King's Cross Compact, published in full: local hiring targets with real numbers, paid apprenticeships for school leavers from Camden schools, a share of procurement (catering, cleaning, security, design, events) going to firms based in the constituency, engineers volunteering in Somers Town and Kentish Town classrooms, free technical help for the charities and small businesses that keep this place running, and their buildings open in the evenings for classes and community use.

This is not a shakedown. These companies mostly want to be good neighbours and don't know how. I'd give them the list, the introductions and the deadline, then publish who delivered.

Beyond King's Cross: I back technology that saves people time and money (booking a GP, reporting a broken lift, challenging a parking ticket, voting on what your MP does) and I'm sceptical of technology that watches people for the sake of it.

Camden Town, Kentish Town, Bloomsbury and Holborn should be the best places in Britain to be 25, 35 or 75 on a Friday night. Instead pubs close, venues lose licences to noise complaints from flats that arrived after them, and the city gets duller and richer at the same time.

Protect pubs and grassroots venues. Enforce the agent-of-change principle so new developments pay to soundproof themselves rather than shutting the venue next door. Late licences for people who run good rooms. A cultural economy that employs thousands of people deserves an MP who's actually out in it.

Every business in this seat, from the market trader at Camden Lock to the lab at the Crick, does better when goods, services and talent move freely. Tariffs are a tax on your shopping. Trade barriers are a tax on your job. I'll back every agreement that lowers them and vote against the politics of pulling up the drawbridge, whichever party is doing the pulling.

Closer to home: Eurostar arrives in this constituency. St Pancras should be the front door of a trading nation, not a queue at passport control. I'll push for faster borders, simpler paperwork for small exporters, and a government that treats an open economy as an asset rather than a threat.

Look at who lives and works here: researchers at UCL and the Crick who lost European funding and colleagues, restaurants and hotels that lost half their staff, students who lost Erasmus, families with a parent from Lisbon or Krakow who spend their evenings on Home Office paperwork. This constituency voted to remain by a landslide and has paid the bill for leaving ever since.

I'll vote for every step back towards Europe: rejoining Erasmus, a youth mobility deal, aligning food and product standards, rejoining the customs union and the single market when the votes are there. If a vote on membership itself comes to the Commons while I'm there, I'll put it to you first, and I'll tell you now which way I lean: in.

Britain's armed forces are smaller than at any point since Napoleon and still buying kit designed for wars that have already happened. The next threat arrives as a drone swarm, a hacked hospital, a cut undersea cable, or a lie spread to a million phones. Our defence should be built around that: cyber, drones, space, intelligence and the engineers who make them, alongside enough conventional strength to matter to our allies.

That means fixing a procurement system that spends billions on projects that arrive late and obsolete, paying and housing service people properly, and treating the tech companies in King's Cross as part of national security, because they are. I'll back spending that makes the country safer and vote against spending that only makes a minister look tough.

Beyond trade, Europe and defence, which land on this constituency directly, I won't take positions on foreign policy unless it affects people here. The last MP for this seat spent a lot of time on international affairs. Look how the buses are doing.

Where a foreign policy decision hits people here (family members abroad, trade that closes a local employer, students who can't get visas) I'll act, and I'll put it to a constituency vote first.