Meet the general election candidates for the Banbury seat: Tim Bearder (Liberal Democrats)

This is the pitch from Tim Bearder, representing the Liberal Democrats (all the other candidates can be found on our website):

Having grown up in Wendlebury and gone to school in Bicester I went on to work at BBC Oxford as a presenter and journalist getting to know the people and places in the area like the back of my hand.

I now serve as a county councillor trying to reverse the cuts to children’s centres and local buses while halting the ludicrous plans to build a million houses between Oxford and Cambridge in the next 30 years. The Oxfordshire portion of this incredible figure would double to size of the county – TWICE as many houses as we currently have!

It is clear from the sheer scale of the current level of building that things have gone terribly wrong and they are set to get much worse.

At this election we can choose Conservative leader Boris Johnson – a man who misled the Queen, was sacked for making up newspaper quotes and lost his job with the former Conservative leader for lying about an affair.

Or we could have Labour leaderJeremy Corbyn, with his extensive plans for nationalisation of everything from the railways to fibre broadband, his eye-watering spending and record breaking tax increases and a woeful ‘neutral’ stance on Brexit.

Only the Liberal Democrats are offering sensible moderate voters a decent choice at this election – an end to the catastrophe that will be Brexit and costed investment in our schools and hospitals.

I am proud to represent a party that hasn’t lurched to either end of the political spectrum.

We have remained consistent on our opposition to Brexit and we seek to win this election here in north Oxfordshire so that we can hold the balance of power and curb the worst excesses of either of the other two extremes.

It’s the Brexit-back Tories, Union-back Labour or the sensible Lib Dems.