'British people first': Former Britain's Got Talent contestant's pledge to Wolverhampton after election win

Stuart Goldsmith also said he would like to see metal detectors in schools to “help the safety of the staff and the children”.

Mr Goldsmith is a well-known face around Wolverhampton thanks to a considerable amount of charity work he has done in the city, and also thanks to his appearance on Britain’s Got Talent as strongman ‘Goldcrusher’.

Immediately after the result was revealed on Friday night (May 8) a visibly emotional Mr Goldsmith told the Express & Star’s Steve Leath: “Everything we’ve done leading up to these elections has been hard work, and after everything I’ve done for Wolverhampton with my charity work it’s brilliant.

“Everywhere I’ve been in fallings Park there have been people going on about the boats coming into the country, so that needs to stop. We need to look after British people first, from their energy bills to the cost of food, and now I’ve been elected I’m here to serve the people of Fallings Park. I’m here to listen.”

Following the declaration of the results Mr Goldsmith and colleague Wayn Hidjiouannou spoke about their hopes to tackle knife crime and mental health problems across Wolverhampton, particularly focused on young people.

“After Britain’s Got Talent I was in a film called ‘Freakish’ and I met up with Wayn, and since then we’ve done a lot of filming together,” Mr Goldsmith said. “I got permission to film The Knife Angel, and then we’ve also done a few videos on knife crime, and the response on social media was 3,500 views.

“We’re now putting another video together which we’re funding ourselves and we’re aiming it at schools to try and educate the kids on getting knives and weapons off the streets.

“We’ll be looking at checking everybody that goes into school with metal detectors to help the safety of the staff and the children. I’ll certainly be bringing this up in the chambers.”

Mr Hidjiouannou said: “We’re also going to be looking into mental health issues to make people aware when someone is showing signs that they’re struggling. In schools we want there to be specialists that can spot those kinds of things, especially in the kids that keep moving schools and no one knows what to do with them.”