Straight to the point With Sam Uffindel Tauranga City MP

It's been one month since we won the Tauranga by-election.

The final results showed a majority victory with a margin of 6354 votes, more than double that of the next candidate. We are incredibly happy with the outcome and attribute it to our dedicated hard work and talking about the things that matter to the people of Tauranga: improving our roads, tackling crime and gangs and easing the cost of living crisis.

Parliament is a beautiful place and I feel incredibly honoured and privileged you have sent me there. My maiden speech is on Tuesday, July 26, and I am really looking forward to speaking in the House and representing this great city.

Since being elected I've been busy with our brilliant team led by Christopher Luxon and going through Parliamentary inductions. I've also been busy meeting Tauranga organisations, including Bay Financial Mentors, tech enablers KiwiSaas, worker-and-business-link start-up Provide and neurodiversity mentors Poumanaaki. We also had a great event with the Taxpayers Union talking against Three Waters.

This coming week, however, it is time for our future generation of MPs to head to Wellington for Youth Parliament and their chance to feel the heat. Ben Cosford is representing Tauranga and he is a young man with a big brain, exceptional people skills and huge future! I hope he thoroughly enjoys the experience.

As always I'm accessible so if you ever want to talk, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Email: mptauranga@parliament.govt.nz or call: 07 577 0923 to arrange an appointment.