Members of the public quizzed candidates in Blackpool North and Fleetwood on a range of concerns
NHS waiting times, universal credit and environmental commitments are among the key issues highlighted by voters on the Fylde coast. Members of the public have quizzed candidates in Blackpool North and Fleetwood on a range of concerns which matter most in their daily lives as the country is just days from General Election polling day on July 4.
All candidates, attending a hustings event in Cleveleys, said they would defend the NHS as a free service, with Green Party candidate Tina Rothery saying it was the funding formulas which were wrong by not leaving enough cash for local NHS chiefs to employ all the doctors and nurses they need. But there were admissions that the private sector should be used where extra capacity was needed.
Conservative Paul Maynard said many people failed to claim benefits they were entitled to such as pension credits and that needed to be addressed, while Labour’s Clive Grunshaw claimed the Tories had underfunded services including the benefits system. Candidates were also pressed on their commitments to green energy, with a member of the audience asking how targets to introduce wind and solar power by 2030 could be met. He said: “Have you got a plan as that is 500 wind turbines a month in the next six years? You have to set up factories, and not buy from China, and from that create jobs.”
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