Read the Hitchin and Harpenden Parliamentary candidates' 'mini manifestos'

The Review asked the five MP hopefuls staking a claim for your votes to outline their six priorities for Hitchin and Harpenden.

But the candidates were tasked with getting each point across in the length of a tweet or less.

Read the candidates' mini manifestos below, listed in the order they were received by the Review.

Conservative candidate Peter Lilley did not want to take part, and at the time of print UKIP's John Stocker had not responded.

The Review will also be tweeting each of the candidate's six key election pledges.

Pauline Pearce, Liberal Democrat

• Education matters: every child should have a good school place in their own local area and no child bussed away from their friends.
• Investing in the community by spending money on local projects and groups that bring big benefits to all people in the community.
• Protect our green spaces. Build homes but don’t over-populate the area. Provide good local homes for local people.
• Build civic pride: beat fly tipping and graffiti in towns and villages. Support small businesses so our community thrives.
• Protect rural England and give a voice and a platform to our farming community.
• As an MP to listen to local views, campaign for the issues that matter locally and stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

Rachel Burgin, Labour

• Accelerate construction of 4th Harpenden secondary school and work with HCC to ensure there are always sufficient primary places.                                   ‎
• Ban exploitative zero hours contracts and raise minimum wage to 8 an hour by 2019. Increase childcare provision from 15 to 25 hours a week.            
• Ensure construction of council housing in Harpenden for first time since 1966.
• Introduce strict cap on rail fares and improve train services. More public ownership of railways.
• Hold St. Albans District Council to account to ensure transparent, consistent and evidence- based decision making.
• 20,000 more nurses and 8,000 more GPs. Reverse NHS privatization. Integrate Health and Social Care.

Richard Wise, Green

• Invest in an £85 billion public programme of renewable electricity generation, flood defences and building insulation. For comparison the bank bailout cost the state £1,162 TRILLION
• Create 500,000 units of social housing, introduce rent controls and end ‘right to buy’
• Cut emissions by providing cheaper public transport and encouraging cycling and walking. 
• End privatisation of the National Health Service, provide proper funding and free social care for the elderly. 
• Cut emissions by providing cheaper public transport and encouraging cycling and walking. 
• Scrap tuition fees and forgive student debt,  bring academies and free schools into the local authority system, introduce universal voluntary early education and childcare from 0 - 7years.