I spent 13 years working at the European Commission in Brussels as a translator and policy officer but I am now a carer for my husband who has late-stage young onset Alzheimer’s disease. He had been living in residential care but I brought him home at the beginning of the first lockdown when families were no longer allowed to visit their relatives. I have been an active member of the local Labour Party since 2015 and am currently Chair of Rye Lane branch and Vice-Chair Membership for the Constituency Labour Party.