At the end of February, Conservativehome.com asked all of the MEP candidates a series of seven questions. My answers are set out below for your information:

What would you bring to the role of MEP?

I am an experienced political campaigner and a senior manager with an insight into the challenges of creating a free trade EU gained setting up a multi-member European network. I will fight to reduce EU interference, to repatriate powers to the UK and to further the economic interests of Londoners. I believe the EU needs to stop looking at structure, form and ever more intervention and instead follow a new, outward looking agenda, focusing on the challenges where multinational cooperation make sense - globalisation, the environment and tackling global poverty. 

Why have you chosen to stand for the London Region?

I have lived and worked in London since 1995. I thrive on the sheer vibrancy and diversity of London and its communities and I am proud to play a part in the world's leading financial, banking and insurance marketplace, the City of London. I will be proud to represent the people of London in Europe and being a candidate for the region where I live means that I am able to devote the time and energy which fighting a successful campaign will demand. 

If we are unable to find enough other MEPs to form a new group, would you sit as an independent outside the EPP? 

I think that recent EU enlargements mean that it is entirely sensible to reassess what has gone before. I am confident that a new grouping will be sucessfully formed. I have signed the Party's Undertaking and I am quite happy to respect that agreement.

Are you in favour of Turkey joining the EU? 

Whilst our policy is "to support Turkey's membership of the EU when it meets in full the relevant criteria", I am concerned that for the forseeable future, in areas such as human rights and democratic conventions, Turkey may struggle to meet those "relevant criteria".

If the European Constitution (the Lisbon Treaty) should have received Royal Assent and been adopted by the other 26 member states BEFORE the election of a Conservative Government, should the Conservative Party hold a retrospective referendum on the text? 

There are a lot of ifs, buts and maybes to be resolved before ratification across the EU can occur. Our immediate task has to be to ensure that we do everything we can to ensure that the Lisbon Treaty/European Constitution is not ratified here. In the process we must take every opportunity to remind voters that this is yet one more area in which this discredited Government has broken its promises to the British people. The news today, that of 150,000 people who voted in the Iwantareferendum ballots, 88% of them said "Let the People Decide", shows we are right to keep fighting. 

Do you think EVERY Tory member in your region should be able to rank ALL MEP candidates at the next European elections? 

I knew the process when I applied and I am happy to abide by the current rules. However, next time round members should be able to rank all of the MEP candidates. In politics we should all be prepared to be judged on our record. We ask it of others in business, the professions and the public sector. We shouldn't make exceptions for ourselves 

Should the UK withold its contributions to the EU budget until the European Court of auditors gives unqualified approval to the accounts? 

No. This would be little more than a sybolic gesture. The UK Government should join with the Dutch in voting against the accounts being signed off it the Council of Ministers and Conservative MEPs should continue with the excellent work they have done over many years, in scrutinising the EUs expenditure and calling those responsible to account not least by voting against the EUs accounts being signed-off.