Name: Laurel Fogarty
Party: Trade Unionists and Socialists Coalition
Constituency: Kingston & Surbiton
Biography: Laurel Fogarty works in higher education and lives in Teddington. She is a member of the University and College Union (UCU) and University College London.
Hobbies/interests: Rock Climbing, painting, reading
She says: "I am standing in these elections to fight against the austerity agenda that unites all the main parties.
"Ordinary workers are facing a real squeeze as pay fails to keep up with inflation and the costs of living soars. Thousands of people used the food bank in Kingston last year, which is scandalous.
"I am standing to put an end to this, for a £10 an hour minimum wage, re-nationalisations of the energy and transport systems and a mass programme of social housing.
"We want wage to live on, homes to live in and affordable energy and transport for everyone. I want to see a society where the power is with ordinary people and not with the one percent at the top, help me fight for it."
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