Chuka Umunna, Labour’s parliamentary candidate for Streatham, has pledged to build on the work of Keith Hill MP if he is elected by establishing a Constituency Office alongside other key commitments outlining how he would operate as MP for the area.

The office would be located at the heart of Streatham and would allow constituents to seek help and arrange to meet with their MP. Mr Umunna would also hold public People’s Question Times, enabling local people to regularly hold him to account and raise issues.

Prior to the election of Keith Hill in 1992, none of the previous MPs for Streatham, all of whom had been Conservatives, had held advice surgeries for local residents across the constituency. While surgeries currently operate in Streatham, Tulse Hill and Clapham Park, Mr Umunna has said he would add a new surgery location in the Brixton area.

While Mr Umunna currently practices as an employment law solicitor, if elected he would immediately give this up and work full time as Streatham’s MP.

To ensure full transparency and accountability, he would publish online his salary and allowances, subscribing to high standards of integrity and prudence with public money.

Commenting on the pledges, Mr Umunna said: “If local people give me the privilege of serving them as their MP, they are entitled to know how what kind of representative I would be and how I would address their problems, concerns and queries.

“Being part of a new political generation, I want to change the way we do politics. On a national level, I believe this requires a more proportional voting system, an elected House of Lords and a mechanism for ‘recalling’ MPs.

“It is unfair that minority parties such as the Lib Dems and Greens are denied representation proportional to the vote they receive, and I would work to redress this.

“Locally I am pledging that if elected I would open a constituency office, add an advice surgery location in Brixton and operate People’s Question Times to make it easier for people to communicate with their MP or seek help.”

If elected, Mr Umunna would be the first Member of Parliament for Streatham to have grown up in the area.