The Gazette asked the candidates standing in Thornbury and Yate to provide a statement explaining why residents should vote for them on Thursday. Here is what Luke Hall (Conservative) had to say.

“I was born in Southmead Hospital, educated in South Gloucestershire state schools and have lived here all my life.

“I started work in the local Lidl store at 18 years old and worked my way up from shelf stacker to become the Store Manager in Yate.

“I married Roisin in 2016 and we live in Yate with our two wonderful boys. Oliver was born in 2017 and Teddy was our Christmas miracle, born late on Christmas Eve last year.

“As someone who has lived locally all my life and is raising my family here, I have set out a six-point Positive Plan for our community. We have defeated the inappropriate development in the area but we must prevent it coming back in a similar form.

“We have upgraded the Yate Minor Injuries Unit, now open seven days a week with more X-Ray services, but now we must re-build Thornbury and Frenchay Health Centres.

“We must upgrade our transport infrastructure, we must continue to invest in our schools and we will support the local economy with low taxes and Jobs Fairs.

“We will make sure we all have access to a good broadband connection.

“Having a Conservative MP here has finally given us the influence to make progress on issues that had been ignored for too long. One huge issue is transport.

“There was a failure to produce a cohesive transport plan before, but now we have secured a Yate Park and Ride, Junction 18A onto the M4 is moving forward, Charfield Station is now deliverable, and we have some A38 proposals.

“Electing an MP from an opposition party means just more shouting from the side lines. I have a Positive Plan for the future of our community.

“South Gloucestershire is the most beautiful place to live in the country. We need an MP who will vote to get Brexit done and move us on to deliver our local priorities.

“If you want to Get Brexit Done and deliver our Positive Plan, Vote Conservative. If you want to spend the next five years arguing about Brexit and having two more referendums, vote for any other party.

“Our constituency is one that will decide whether we have two more referendums and years more dither and delay, or whether we move on and focus on other issues like schools, policing and social care. "There has never been a Conservative majority Government without this constituency returning a Conservative MP. If we don’t have a Conservative MP here, Corbyn will be walking through that door.” “Both Labour and the Lib Dems want the same thing; Corbyn in Number 10, two more referendums and years of delay.”