Let me introduce myself.

Full statement

My name is Ian Collier and I am your Reform Party parliamentary candidate for the newly formed constituency of Brent West.

I have lived in Brent for all of my 73 years. I went to school in Willesden and Kilburn and I got married in Kingsbury. I am a qualified actuary and graduated in mathematics and economics from the University of Sussex in 1972.

I have three children who all went to school in Brent and have eight grandchildren.

I have been a member of the Woodcock Park Bowling Club for 35 years and served as its president for two years.

I am a keen football and cricket lover, supporting Chelsea FC and Middlesex CCC and have interests in a Child Care business and a Domiciliary Care business.

I joined Reform UK over eighteen months ago after having believed in conservative values all my life and distraught that the so-called Conservative Party had abandoned these principles which are the basis of Reform’s philosophy. I discovered that Reform was made up of ordinary people like you and me who have a much better handle on life than the career politicians that swamp the other parties.