Chris has always had a strong sense of right and wrong, with an emphasis on fairness above all.

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He has also always held liberal philosophies such as the right to live your life without fear or prejudice whilst also respecting the principles of avoiding or minimising harm to others caused by your or someone else’s actions. As he grew up his ideas evolved and matured, as they do for everyone, through the benefits of lived experience and the challenges that life always throws at you. Chris was brought up in a safe and secure environment and spent much of his youth as part of the Red Cross supporting many areas of the community. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School in High Wycombe where he was lucky to visit Germany, France and Russia and had the harrowing experience of seeing the Berlin Wall before its fall. He decided to leave home at 18 and sought to build a new life with his then fiancée, Justine. They moved several times during their lives, living and working in many parts of the UK including London, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Clackmannanshire, Livingston and, most recently, Northamptonshire where they decided to finally settle and start a family. Their son, Michael, was born after they were married for nearly 20 years and he is now studying at the University of Northampton. Chris has also worked in many other countries including France, Spain, India, Fiji, Mauritius, the Middle East and the United States as part of roles based in the UK. These experiences helped to round out his understanding of many parts of the UK and the wider world and their cultures.

His father was based on a Minesweeper during the second half of the Second World War and helped fight to preserve our democratic freedoms from the oppression of the extreme right wing and fascism. In recent years these have been under attack from within, with many tactics used in autocratic states seeding their way into life in the UK. This, along with the antiquated First Past the Post electoral system has put our basic human rights and freedoms under attack, invisible to many, like the frog in the boiling pot. Chris decided that enough was enough, he could no longer leave protecting our health, security and inalienable freedoms to the Conservatives, and does not trust Labour to be brave enough to lead us back to our basic British ideals of fairness, care and inclusivity, preferring achieving and staying in power rather than persuade the great British public to support what will, in fact rather than ideology, make us all better off financially and culturally.