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 Rob Logan (Labour) had to say.

“I have lived in the Bristol area for 13 years.

“We moved here when my eldest daughter was born because my wife’s family has lived in or around Thornbury for over 35 years.

“We are very lucky to have this family connection to Thornbury, and my daughters feel at home here.

“I have been a member of the Labour Party for over twenty years. The fundamental values remain.

“Ultimately everyone joins Labour because they believe in social justice, but the reasons why are often very personal.

“Mine is my grandfather, a working class boy who’d grown up in the Black Country in the 1920s, who later became a Church of England vicar. He told me what Britain was like for his family before the NHS - he lost his brothers in childhood from diseases that don’t kill people any more, and he lost his mother to what was then called ‘exhaustion’.

“What struck me most was that he was never bitter or angry - he just remembered that world, and wanted to work for a better world where every human being is valued and given the chance to thrive. That’s still my aim.

“Like it or not, this election is fundamentally about Brexit, and voters really do have a historic decision to make.

“The nation deserves a fresh choice.”