I have lived in Tamworth since 1996 and consider Staffordshire my home.

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Originally from Nottinghamshire, the miners’ strike, was influential on my generation. From a working-class family, dad worked and mum stayed at home looking after the family. I went to the local grammar school and stayed on to do my A levels.

After school, I started my career at the Land Registry, however I decided it was not for me. I ended up doing a lithographic printing apprenticeship with a local firm. I moved on doing various roles in the print media industry from production & manufacturing, sales, to eventually becoming a buyer of printed media, on the way doing a business degree and finally an MBA, with its international element in Poland.

I have worked with a variety of businesses both large and small along the whole of the supply chain, so I’ve got great experience and understanding of business and manufacturing. Formerly the sales director of an accountancy firm based in Birmingham (with branches across the West Midlands); I've set up my own practice as an "SME business consultant", helping new and growing businesses with the knowledge and experience I've gained over 35 years in business and industry..

I joined Reform UK because like many individuals across the UK I had grown disillusioned with the main parties, having a credit card thickness between them on many issues, they offer the electorate a “Uni-Party” choice at the ballot box.

Reform UK supply an opportunity for the electorate to choose a party that has the interests of the whole of the UK at heart, and not the current technocratic approach to managed decline of the UK. Reform offer something fresh and new, with a positive vision of the UK, policies that have a wide appeal and considerable support, if only given the opportunity.

“Those who never change their minds, never change anything” - George Bernard Shaw

Vote Reform, the UK can do better!