The political party Reform UK has put forward a candidate in the Macclesfield constituency for the next general election.

The date for the next general election has yet to be announced but, by law, it has to take place by the end of January 2025.

Stephen Broadhurst will be standing as the reform party's parliamentary candidate in Macclesfield.

A British Aerospace engineer by trade and a business change specialist by profession, Stephen has lived in Macclesfield his whole life.

He lives near the canal and Hovis Mill, having enjoyed all of what the vibrant town centre of Macclesfield had to offer.

He has already played a part in helping his community, having been previously elected twice for Borough Councillor.

"I have put myself forward as PPC with ideas and a real plan which I will instigate and deliver real action and change against," said Stephen.

"I am sick of paying for other people's mistakes. Courtesy of this Conservative Government my mortgage has trebled and because of this Labour ran Cheshire East Council my Council Tax Bill is scandalously high and for what? I personally feel like I am being ripped off every time I pay my bills.

Macclesfield: When do you think the next General Election will take place? (Image - Macclesfield Nub News)

"I will compel Cheshire East Council to start doing what is right for us. We need to take back control of our local services and start to receive value for money from our Council Tax payments.

"Continuous cuts in our services, the closure of tips and libraries, important issues not and never addressed within our constituency with pot holes and the emptying of road gulleys continuously coming up as our pet peeves time and time again.

"Every year, maximum increases to our Council Tax because they can and will; the abolishment of free parking and an increase in current charges, our shopping enjoyment and entitlement is being continuously squeezed and taken away.

"We cry out for a regular and fixed street market, but we cannot have one due to the restrictions of The Grosvenor Centre."

Stephen explains that he is not and never will be a career politician.

Stephen supports the petition calling for Macclesfield to leave Cheshire East Council. (Image - Macclesfield Nub News / Cheshire East Council)

"I advocate the current petition calling to break away from Cheshire East to become a single Macclesfield Borough Council again. Despite numerous invitations to the other candidates to sign up to it, I am the only one who has done so", he said.

"All things considered, it makes absolute sense, to me, that Cheshire East must be ran like a business; contactable people who are responsible and accountable for what they do and don't do and are judged and measured against issues which are important to us and being forced to sort them out once and for all.

"This, together with clear justification on where our money is being spent and will be spent, I would like to think that this is just common sense.

"Want Reform? Get Reform! Together we cannot just make Macclesfield great, we can transform it into the fantastic place that it can be. I would also give you a real voice in Westminster on issues that matter to our proud country and not just party whipped onto agreeing to things that don't."

Stephen now joins six other candidates in vying to be Macclesfield's next MP.

The full seven candidates confirmed to Macclesfield Nub News are: Green Party (Amanda Iremonger), Conservatives (David Rutley MP), Labour (Tim Roca), Liberal Democrats (Neil Christian), Social Democratic Party (Dickie Fletcher), Independent (Christopher Wellavize) and Reform Party (Stephen Broadhurst).

The Reform UK party has never stood in a Macclesfield General Election, it was founded in November 2018 as the Brexit Party.

Former Conservative MP Lee Anderson, is the only Reform UK representative in the Houses of Parliament.

You can find more information about Stephen on his website.