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This is my priority. To present a Private Members Bill to Parliament forbidding serving and former MPs or Peers from using their position of privilege and responsibility to benefit financially from furthering the interests of the banking and business communities either through the influencing of legislation and regulation or the awarding of contracts.*

To seek to remove the right of former MPs to have a pass enabling them access to the House of Commons. Reputedly there are 200 in existence and 25 of those belong to MPs who now work in the lobby industry. **

To seek to protect taxpayers from underwriting investment banks or the investment departments of retail banks.

To prevent the state from interfering with the doctrine of the Church. ***

To support the removal of the culture of bloated management and obsession with targets that has undermined the invaluable work of the NHS and ensure the provision of a skilled and caring workforce is the primary objective.****

To support the establishment of state funded, independently run schools as advocated by the Conservative party and a grade system that is not so disillusioning for children and parents and despairing for teachers and universities.

To support the campaign to compensate those injured in Iraq and Afghanistan before April 2005.

To support the removal of quangos that are wasteful and encroach on liberty.*****

To safeguard the care of children and the elderly.******

To pursue the establishment of an immigration policy that does not punish the vulnerable, protects the rights of the citizens of the UK and ensures those granted permission to stay contribute to rather than take from the exchequer.

*This type of Bill can be presented by a backbench MP and was successfully used by William Wilberforce to abolish the slave trade. Public opinion and support played a huge part in this.

**This legislation is also important as a deterrent to those attempting to enter Parliament for the wrong reasons. Many of the Conservative parliamentary candidates work for lobby firms that seek to influence the party should they come to power.

***As much as it has been abhorrent to discriminate against gay men and women in the workplace and society and important that legislation has achieved the removal of these prejudices, it is critical that the Church is not forced by the state in its stance on gay marriage and adoption.

****Targets are a terrible distraction as exemplified by the Mid-Staffordshire hospital who relentlessly pursued Foundation Trust status whilst many of its patients suffered and died through lack of care.This destructive and disempowering bureaucracy also needs to be removed from the police.

*****The National Police Improvement Agency is a misnomer. The police should always be looking to improve. The Safeguarding Authority is or will be soon responsible for scrutinising millions of volunteers who are effectively being asked to prove they are not child molesters. This does untold harm to the already damaged relationship between the state and citizen.

****** As with the police force and the NHS, it is critical that the most vulernable in our society are not denied help due to excessive red tape and sinister box-ticking.