Bev Craig: “I think we've also started to build something around what you see with our economy. This has been decades in the making.”

Because that is what it is all about.

I never believed as a girl growing up on a council estate that one day I would have the chance to stand for the place that I love.

I am standing as my own person, with my own ideas, and I’ll be accountable to this region, and to no one else.

So it's absolutely fantastic that in two weeks since becoming prime minister, he's coming good on his long-standing beliefs around power and control.