Falkirk's new MP Euan Stainbank says cuts to school hours is biggest issue
dailyrecord.co.ukLife is suddenly very different for 24-year-old Euan Stainbank.The councillor for Falkirk South is now also one of the 37 Scottish Labour MPs who were part of a Labour landslide that saw the party win 412 seats nationally.The Falkirk result wasn't one many would have predicted at the start of the campaign - overturning an SNP majority of nearly 15,000. READ MORE: Demolition of Bo'ness centre can go ahead as community group drops bid to take it on But Cllr Stainbank firmly believes his campaign was won on doorsteps across the Falkirk area, and his record and experience as a local councillor helped to persuade many to trust him with their vote."Back in January, I was under no illusion about the size of the majority we had to overturn," he said."But I started getting more optimistic with the reception we were getting on the doors - especially in my own ward."The questions he was being asked over and over again on the campaign trail, he says, were: "Who are you?
What have you done? What are you going to do?"His answer was to point to the work he - along with his Labour group colleagues - have been doing since he was first elected to Falkirk Council, two years ago."I genuinely think that's what won the campaign," he says."I think people are more interested in what you are going to do right now, rather than what ideology you have for 10, or 15 years time."One of the issues that came up "time and time again" on the doorsteps was the consultation on reducing school hours across Falkirk district as a way to cut spending on education.After the election, the SNP candidate, Toni Giugliano, admitted on social media "proposals to cut school hours and the closure of community centres by an SNP administration severely damaged our
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