Tim Murnaghan - Your Labour Candidate

I live in the City and have worked as an IT architect developing trading systems in and around the City, for over 20 years, including working in 4 offices in Coleman Street Ward.

I was a councillor in South London from 1994-98 so I have experience of local government, I have been chair of governors at my local primary school and a member of the community health council, and I combine my interests in education and technology by organizing corporate volunteers to help teach programming in schools.

The other candidates make a virtue of their independent status but I have decided to stand along with my Labour colleagues in other wards because the “non-political” status has, in fact, led to a narrow range of opinions. There are 100 councillors in the small area of the City, around half of who neither live nor work here, including members of the other political parties even though they don't stand as such. At a time when the next generation of the City's institutions is being defined by the actions and regulations of government it's important that the Common Council as a representative of the City more genuinely represents the range of opinions in the City.