Next up to take on our meet the candidate questionnaire is Christine Bayliss who is standing for Labour in the constituency of Bexhill and Battle.

The Argus (TA): What is the biggest single issue in the constituency you are standing in?

Christine Bayliss (CB): The biggest single issue in the constituency is the crisis in NHS funding with reductions in funding for social care being a major contributing factor.

It’s a disgrace that our elderly, most of whom will have paid taxes and National Insurance all their life, are denied the services which will allow them to lead an independent life in their own home.

Because of this lack of support, elderly people may end up in hospital or moving to a nursing home which is far more expensive to provide.

The incentives are all wrong and while there are moves to address these they won’t work without increased resources and that means money and people.

TA: Do you believe that Brexit can bring about a positive change to Sussex?

CB: We have to make Brexit work for ordinary working people and that means retaining membership of the single market.

That way we can protect jobs and access to European markets.

We must oppose any move to make the UK some low-tax low wage tax haven which will only benefit the few.

TA: Who will win this election?

CB: Labour will win the election with a 20-seat majority.

The reason is that young people will go out and vote in numbers we haven’t see before.

TA: Who is your political hero and why?

CB: My political hero is Barack Obama who showed how you could turn an economy around not through some mean-spirited austerity programme but by investing in public services.

Look at the number of new high-quality jobs in the American economy that have been created – these have come from sustained investment.

TA: What has been the best moment you have had out campaigning?

CB: I just love talking to residents on the doorstep.

People are genuinely polite even if they don’t support Labour – I’ve only had the door slammed in my face once this election.

TA: Is this election necessary considering we already have a majority government that was due to run until 2020?

CB: I don’t really understand why Theresa May called the election other than for party political benefit.

She had a huge majority in favour of triggering Article 50.

So we should seize the opportunity and show the electorate there is another way and that a vote for Labour is a vote for the many not the few.

TA: Can voters be confident that our current system is the best way to select a government?

CB: I have supported proportional representation in the past as a fairer way of electing a government.

I’m not so sure now that we have marginal parties who try to sow the seeds of division and recrimination on particular groups.