I was elected as the member of parliament for Aberconwy back in 2010. They were testing times, with our deficit that year a staggering £141 billion and even that horrendous figure was an improvement on the previous year. Once again it appeared that a Conservative government would need to clean up a mess created by a previous Labour government.

However, on this occasion it really was a financial disaster of biblical proportions: with the loose finances of the Labour government post-2001 being compounded by the impact of the great financial crash of 2008.

The decisions taken since 2010 have been difficult and challenging. This is true for those making the decisions but much more so for those who were affected. Not a single MP that