The story so far
Years of local service, a clear new direction
Pershore Town Council and Mayor of Pershore
I was first elected to public office in 2019, joining Pershore Town Council. Over the years that followed I served on a range of committees and got stuck into the day-to-day work that keeps a town like Pershore running: parking, events, the high street, community grants, partnership work with local groups.
From 2022 to 2023 I served as Mayor of Pershore. The ceremonial side of the role mattered, but what mattered more was the chance to meet hundreds of residents, business owners and volunteers, and to find out, in their own words, what was working and what wasn’t.
Why Reform UK, and why now
I previously stood as a Conservative. I’m honest about that because residents deserve honesty. I left because I no longer believed the party was listening to the people whose votes it relied on. Reform UK, by contrast, is doing the unglamorous work of putting common sense back into local government: lower waste, straighter answers, real accountability.
In October 2025 I stood for Reform UK in the Bretforton and Offenham by-election, triggered by the resignation of the sitting Conservative councillor. Residents backed Reform with 43.5% of the vote, more than double the Conservative share, and a comfortable lead over every other party. I take that result as both a mandate and an obligation.
What I’m focused on as your district councillor
Wychavon District Council handles the things people actually notice: planning and development pressure on green-belt villages, waste collection, council tax, housing standards, parking, licensing, environmental health. That’s where most of my time goes.
Underneath all of it sits the bigger question for our villages: how do you protect their character against a planning system that often seems designed to ignore local voices? My job is to be the voice that gets through.