Background and career
He was educated at Bishop Wordsworth's School and Peterhouse,Cambridge,where he read Engineering and History,graduating in 1972. [4] [5] He spent 18 years in the Royal Engineers,rising to the rank of major. [4] After leaving the military — partly due to his sexuality, [6] as LGBTQ+ personnel could not serve openly in the UK until 2000 — he was approached and interviewed for a further career in espionage but being gay meant that MI5 were not interested in interviewing him further. [6]
He was elected to Waverley Borough Council and to Farnham Town Council in 1995, [1] having been a Conservative activist since 1987, [1] and to Surrey County Council in 1997, [1] [7] standing down shortly after being elected as PCC. [7]
In December 2018,he was unsuccessful in his bid to gain automatic reselection as the Conservative candidate; [8] the following March he lost his reselection battle to Charlotte Chirico,a solicitor. [9] After his deselection,he left the Conservative group at the Association of PCCs to join the independents. [1] In September 2019 he was expelled from the Conservative Party for having “campaigned against Conservative Party candidates”,which he denied. [1] The next PCC elections had been scheduled for 7 May 2020 but,due to the COVID-19 pandemic in England,the elections were postponed to May 2021, [10] with a further party reselection in February 2021 choosing Lisa Townsend as the Conservative candidate against him. [11]
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