I’m a husband and father with 10 years experience in retail and 10 years experience in finance.

Full statement

I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth and I certainly don’t feel like I have one now, after decades of financial mismanagement by Labour and the Conservatives.

Like many, I’ve had to work hard to support my family through good times and bad. I live locally and I care a great deal about my family being able to grow up in a safe, clean and enjoyable community, one which cares about its heritage and its future. This is why I’m involved with my local church, a local history society, local litter picking organisations, and, lately, our local Reform UK branch.

I understand what it’s like to live within your means and to make tough decisions about how and where to spend money for the best return. I do this at home and work every day.

I want to leverage the skills and experience that I have gained through a life of work and play to engage with our local council to ensure that our money is being well spent. I want to ensure planning works for our community; to put a stop to developers riding rough-shod over local residents and to support growth which is genuinely beneficial to us. I want to work with our local police force to ensure we see a more visible police presence in our community to deter low level and nuisance crime and I want to see more of the tax we pay being invested in the infrastructure we use every day. To ensure that not only do we have functional roads and refuse collections, but also that we continue to enjoy the benefits of vital cultural assets like libraries and theatres, which perform a crucial role in enabling the social and economic mobility that financially disadvantaged families, like the one in which I grew up, rely upon.