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Tackling those issues, among others, will occupy my time in this place, with the simple aim that I leave things better than when I arrived. My commitment to public service will not waver, whatever the political weather, because that is what I have been sent here to do and it is a responsibility that I take immensely seriously. Although I chose Rochester and Strood as my home in adulthood, I pay tribute to my predecessor, Kelly Tolhurst, who was born and raised in the constituency and is rightly very proud of that fact. As she said in her own maiden speech, her successful journey