My name is Nick Lockett and moved to London over 30 years ago and live in Westminster with my Chinese wife and our dog Chewey.

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My professional background was firstly in Finance and then in Law, firstly as a barrister and then as a solicitor-advocate, I run a firm of solicitors that is business orientated and a Trustee and Founder of a computer charity that helps underprivileged children to learn computer skills. I have been an educational adviser and understand the issues of neurodiversity, having family members on the spectrum. I have been involved in many legal cases involving housing, homelessness, and violence against women and have also been a prosecutor for the CPS and I have prosecuted drug dealers and criminals. I am a local resident in Westminster, just yards from the Westminster Cathedral & I know what a great place this is to live and raise a family, but also how the area has been let down by the Labour-Conservative Westminster Council and how homelessness, crime and drugs have exploded in Westminster in the last few years. Like many Westminster residents, I have watched with increasing frustration and anger, how our neighbourhood has become overrun with drug dealers dealing openly on street corners, drug users using drugs on our doorsteps and leaving needles in the park, the increased homelessness caused by a tsunami of illegal migrants taking up the homeless shelters to the detriment of the existing homeless and defaecating openly in our streets and parks.