Newport East Candidate Ed Townsend signs the code watched by Kirsty Williams
The Welsh Liberal Democrats are kicking off our General Election campaign by seeking to restore confidence and trust in politics.
Following the controversy surrounding MPs allowances last year, all Welsh Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates agreed to my request to sign a Code of Conduct on Elected Members Allowances and Transparency.
The Code of Conduct states that no MP should profit from the tax-payer with regard to their allowances and that there should be complete transparency in how allowances are spent.
Our broken political system desperately needs to be cleaned up. Trust in politics has suffered a massive blow over the last few years and things must change. We cannot have a system where the people of this country cannot trust their politicians.
Labour has had 13 years to change and clean up broken politics, and it has failed to do so and the Tories cannot be trusted to bring about the changes that are required.
The Welsh Liberal Democrats want to restore this trust and the Code of Conduct that all our parliamentary candidates are signing will hopefully help to restore people’s confidence in the political system.
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