EAST Lothian households will receive my annual parliamentary report on how I represent all constituents at Holyrood, irrespective of how you voted.

My leaflet mentions the East Lothian Business Forum, which I convened, and I note that “I came away with a lot to action”. This applies across all issues, from restoring banking services in Tranent to tackling gender-based violence against women and girls; from supporting the increase in the Scottish Child Payment to listening to the needs of local GPs. Constituents offer a wealth of knowledge about what impacts daily lives, and your voice is heard at Holyrood.

Eight-thousand families in East Lothian were impacted when the UK Government removed the Universal Credit uplift.

Foodbank usage increased year-on-year at that point by 80 per cent – that figure has stayed at that level every month.

The cost-of-living crisis is still ongoing and has a devastating impact on families day on day – that remains the biggest issue facing residents in East Lothian and my number one priority.

I’d also like to commend my colleague Ian Blackford MP. One of the first to call out Boris Johnson’s lies over a year ago, his courageous and principled criticism, heard in almost stone silence in the Commons, has now been fully vindicated.

Also vindicated over Brexit is former Bank of England governor Mark Carney. This Friday marks seven years since the EU referendum, when Carney’s 2016 warnings that cutting ties with Brussels would lead to recession were dismissed by Boris Johnson as “talking Britain down”, while other senior Tories accused Carney of “startling dishonesty” and “peddling phoney forecasts”. Carney was right that Brexit would mean stubborn inflation and low growth, and Britain’s current predicament sharpens the question for East Lothian: will Scotland flourish better in an isolationist and blinkered UK, or on the global stage as part of the EU?