3 June 2026
No MHK is an island
With only 24 mostly-independent MHKs, it's clear that no MHK can achieve anything alone. Each piece of legislation and policy change needs a coalition of MHKs who agree it's worth doing.
My entire career has been built upon collaboration. As a professional scientist, I have worked on numerous EU and British Government projects where colleagues across multiple countries had to agree not just on how to get the project funded, but on how to actually deliver it. This would often be with very different opinions on the best way forward given our respective backgrounds, but we still got the work done. Setting up the Island's COVID testing laboratory in 2020 was the same story at higher speed: civil servants, lab staff, volunteers, suppliers, and politicians all pulling in the same direction under enormous pressure.
So when I say that I want to deliver for Onchan (and the Isle of Man), I'm not promising to shout the loudest in the chamber or on Facebook. I'm promising to do plenty of the unglamorous work behind the scenes: finding common ground with other MHKs to actually move things forward for our constituents.
I believe that politics on the Island works best when it's grown-up, evidence-based and has the aim to improve the lives of islanders, first and foremost. That's the kind of MHK I intend to be.