The candidates standing for election in Romsey have answered our final questions ahead of election day. We asked every candidate the same five questions which addressed child safety, youth clubs, sports provisions, and what they would do on day one. The Romsey and Southampton North seat has been held by Conservative Caroline Nokes since 2010.
At the last election in 2019, she won with a majority of 10,872. The candidates for Romsey and Southampton North are: Caroline Nokes (Conservative), Geoff Cooper (Lib Dem), Fennie Yap (Independent), Christie Lambert (Labour), Connor Shaw (Green) and Paul Barrett (Reform). See what they had to say below: The Conservative Government passed the Online Safety Act, a world-leading piece of legislation designed to go further than any other country has to protect children from material that would be harmful.
It is a work in progress and the Select Committee I chaired has taken evidence from Ofcom (among others) to keep up to date with how the Act is working. There is clearly more to be done to hold the tech companies to account and I have done a great deal of work with the Revenge Porn Helpline to tackle online abuse of women and girls. It is work I very much hope to be able to continue.
The Conservatives are proposing a network of family hubs, which will be one stop shops for families with children, not just babies but all through childhood. They will be able to provide advice and help with infant feeding, parenting classes, peri-natal mental .
