Dan Tomlinson, an experienced economist, is the Labour candidate for Chipping Barnet. He started his career at HM Treasury and has been working at a leading anti-poverty charity. If elected, he plans to work with Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves to tackle the cost of living crisis and make people in Barnet better off. He will prioritize hiring 1,300 new police officers in London to undo the Conservative cuts to policing. He also plans to convene a Barnet car theft summit, fight for funding for the local NHS, and improve local roads and pavements [63431e65].
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