Messages of North Yorkshire voters for new MPs for the year

Labor’s landslide from the general election victory for one year, we asked voters in two North Yorkshire seats who had changed their hands for the first time if they saw any change and what were their priorities for their new MPs.

Ketleen Lee works as a waitress at a seat Haroget, a seat won by Liberal Democrat Tom Gordon from Conservatives on 4 July 2024.

She said that she left her home to the city after being asked for a joint £ 1,600 for a joint £ 1,600 to rent a flat and went to live in a nearby Leeds, where the tencass are cheap.

The 31 -year -old is now planning to go back, but only be able to bear when she walks with her partner, and wants her local MP to push for cheap housing. “There is nothing for a person,” he said.

Tourism and hospitality play an important role in the economy of Harroget, but Ketlin said that many of his friends who work in the field cannot take the risk of living in the city.

“It is really difficult to find places to match our wages,” he said.

“If I had tried to go somewhere on my own, the rent would have taken my most salary.

“I am moving forward with my partner so that the situation is fine for me, but there is nothing for a person.”

For husband and wife Paul and Rachel Flatures, who also live in Herologat, the first year of the new government has been one of the concerns about the cost of life – and a plan of welfare improvement.

Paul said: “Everything is so expensive. We are trying to manage the best way, but you can all think about that the bills are paying.”

Rachel said that both received personal freedom payment (PIP) and the government’s plans for welfare reforms were “frightening”.

“We want our MPs to fight those cuts in Parliament,” Rachel said.

His new MP said that he had challenged the government to “several times” his welfare reforms and voted against the change in Big Commons conflict earlier this week.

Gordon said, “The government’s plans to cut the pip were sick and silly.”

“PIP empowers many disabled people to live more independently, which helps cover the increased costs coming with disability.”

He said that his Harroget and Narasboro constituency “strict” needs more high-standard and social housing.

Gordon said, “We need to look at the developers organized in account to provide badly necessary infrastructure to support the new housing, whether it is public and active transport, GPS and NHS services or schools improvement,” Gordon said.

Sixty miles are the seats of pre -scarborough and Whitbi, which is another conservative loss scene last year, this time for the Ellison Hume of Labor.

The first voters we met there, Sheena O’Sullyan, who raised a long -running complaint, lacks progress on improvement in A64.

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Sheena, who lives in Scarborough, said, “We have not seen any change on it.”

“I hope that labor could give some changes, but I was not very confident, unfortunately.

“Last week I was in a traffic jam for two and a half hours in summer. It’s very disappointing.”

The eighteen -year -old Lewis Favrop, also from the resort, said that the youth of his hometown needed more things to do so they could tolerate.

“We were going to do a escape room, but it was £ 88 for all four of us. It’s not something that everyone can do.”

Lewis, who went from Bradford to Scarborough, said: “It was fun for the first time when I was going to the beach every day, but it became boring after a while. There is not much except Arcads.”

He said that if there were youth clubs in the city, he and his friends would have gone “probably”.

He said, “We must have seen them, depending on what they were doing.”

Hume said: “The government has committed a strategy for young people and in March, a national hearing practice was started to allow young people to feed in it. Our youth guarantee means that every 18 to 21 year old man in England helps to find education, training, or job or trading.

He said that improvement in A64 was one of the over 30 schemes identified by the department for national highways and transportation, which is being considered for delivery since 2030.

Hume said: “Such major projects typically pass through eight counseling stages and the National Highway has completed most stage two. York and North Yorkshire CA have also been awarded just franchise pilots.”