Networks

Supporters

Our supporters network is made up of elected representatives, candidates and councillors with members from every major political party. They also support our core goals.

Parliamentary and party leaders

This includes both current and former parliamentarians for both Westminster and devolved parliaments.

Parliamentary and party leaders

This includes both current and former parliamentarians for both Westminster and devolved parliaments. It also includes current and former party leaders alongside 

Lord Neil Kinnock

Former Labour Leader

Neil was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1983 until 1992. He was also the Vice-President of the European Commission between 1999 and 2004 and a member of Parliament between 1970 and 1995. Since 2005 he has been a Member of the House of Lords.

Carwyn Jones

Former First Minister of Wales

Carwyn was First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour for nine years. He also sits on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party. Carwyn was also the Counsel General for Wales and Member of the Senedd for Bridgend.

Stephen Hammond MP

Former Minister and Member of Parliament

Stephen is the Conservative MP for Wimbledon. He has been an MP since winning the seat in 2005 and served as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport from 2012 to 2014 and a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Care from 2018 to 2019.

Gina Miller

Leader and Founder of the True and Fair Party

Gina is the Leader of the True and Fair Party and co-founded investment company SCM Direct. She also won two legal challenges against the UK Government in 2017 and 2019, most famously during the Brexit negotiations. She also founded the True and Fair Campaign which drafted text in three EU Directives, all of which vastly improved consumer protection and transparency.

Peter Fox MS OBE

Member of the Senedd

Peter is the Shadow Minister for Finance in the Welsh Parliament (Senedd) and the Conservative Member for Monmouth.

Lord Dick Taverne KC

Member of the House of Lords and Former Member of Parliament

Dick launched the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was its first Director. He also founded the Charity Sense about Science and served on the boards of several international companies. Dick also had a long political career and held a number of positions in government as a Minister and as Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He was also founder and leader of the Democratic Labour Party and sat as their MP. He later started the Campaign for Social Democracy Party.

Lord Roger Roberts

Member of the House of Lords

Roger is a Member of the House of Lords and was previously President of the Welsh Liberal Democrats. He is also President of Liberal Democrats for Seekers of Sanctuary, Wales International, Friends of Barka UK and is honorary president of Bite The Ballot.

Sir David Hanson

Former Minister and former Member of Parliament

Sir David Hanson was MP for Delyn from 1992-2019. During his time in parliament David held a number of positions including as the Parliamentary Private Secretary to Tony Blair, Minister of State for Justice from 2007-2009, Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office from 2005-2007 and Minister of State for Security, Counter-Terrorism, Crime and Policing in the Home Office from 2009-2010.

Suzy Davies

Former Member of the Senedd

Suzy was the South Wales West Conservative member of the Senedd between 2011 until 2021. She also held Shadow Ministerial positions including Education, Social Services and Tourism, Culture and the Welsh Language. Alongside this Suzy was the first woman to run to be Welsh Conservative leader in 2018 and sat on multiple Senedd committees.

Cllr Dr Rosemary Sexton

Councillor and former Green Party leadership contender

Rosemary is a former leadership contender for the Green Party, an independent Councillor and was the parliamentary candidate for Solihull in 2019.

Stephen Lloyd

Former Member of Parliament

Stephen was the MP for Eastbourne from 2010 to 2015 and 2017 to 2019. His front bench roles included Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Northern Ireland, the DWP and in the coalition government, as PPS to the Environment Secretary.

Julian Huppert

Former Member of Parliament

Julian was the Liberal Democrat MP for Cambridge between 2010 and 2015. Before this he was a Cambridgeshire County Councillor for eight years and a Cambridge University Lecturer in Physics. He was also Deputy Chair of the NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group. Julian is now a Director of the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust and a founding director of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, University of Cambridge.

Tom Blenkinsop

Former Member of Parliament

Tom is the former Member of Parliament for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland. He also served as a Labour whip between 2011 and 2015. He is now a public affairs advisor for the Federation of Small Business.

Parliamentary candidates

This includes parliamentary candidates for both Westminster and devolved parliaments.

Parliamentary candidates

This includes parliamentary candidates for both Westminster and devolved parliaments.

Cllr Martin Goss

Former parliamentary candidate and Liberal Democrat group leader in Colchester Council

Martin is the Liberal Democrat group leader in Colchester Council and is a Parliamentary spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 general election he also stood as the parliamentary candidate in Colchester.

Mark Bray-Parry

Former Parliamentary Candidate

Mark was the 2019 Parliamentary Candidate for Guildford.

Cllr June Davies

Parish Councillor and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

June is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the True and Fair Party for Monmouth constituency and is a Newland Parish Councillor.

Rhys Jones

Former Parliamentary Candidate

Rhys is a former parliamentary candidate for the Welsh Senedd elections.

Cllr Daniel Laycock

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate and Town Councillor

Daniel Laycock is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Huntingdon and a Town Councillor for Eynesbury in St Neots for the Green Party.

Georgia Elliott-Smith

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Georgia is the True & Fair Party candidate for Hertsmere. She is also a former UNESCO Special Junior Envoy and established the sustainability consultancy Element Four.

Helen Wetherall

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Helen is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the True and Fair Party for Derbyshire Dales.

Daniel Roy Connelly

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Daniel is the True and Fair Party candidate for York Outer.

Paul Farragher

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Paul is the True and Fair Party candidate for Tatton. He was previously a local entrepreneur.

Alan Victor

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Alan is the True & Fair Party candidate for Mid Bedfordshire.

Pete Force-Jones

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Pete is the True & Fair Party candidate for Devizes.

Jonathan Tod

Prospective Parliamentary Candidate

Jonathan is the True & Fair Party candidate for Fareham and Waterlooville.

Council level

This includes both sitting councillors and council candidates. Our councillors can be from any level of local government including District, Parish, Town, Community, Borough and County Councils.

Cllr Asma Islam

London Borough Councillor

Asma is a Councillor for Weavers ward in Tower Hamlets Borough Council. She is also Chair of Tower Hamlets Labour Group and a regional executive committee member for London Labour.

Cllr Adam Kirby

Borough Councillor

Adam is a Woking Borough Councillor. He is also Head of Data and Insight at JPES Partners.

Cllr Tom Kendall

Community Councillor

Tom is an Independent Community Councillor in Llanbadarn Fawr, Aberystwyth and has been the local representative since 2019.

Cllr Mary Donnelly

Councillor

Mary is an SNP councillor for South Lanarkshire Council since being first elected in 2017. She is also the Chair of the Hamilton Area Committee.

James Steel

Former Borough Councillor

James is a Liberal Democrat and a former Councillor for Westborough (Guildford) and he was the lead Councillor for Environment. He has also been a Housing Activist with groups such as Surrey, Cut the Rent and Guildford Private Renters Association in the past.

Danny Simm

Former council candidate

Danny was the Liberal Democrat council candidate in Abram Ward, Wigan, and also serves on the North West executive of the Liberal Democrats.

Archie Barnett

Former Parish Council candidate

Archie stood for Parish Council in Dawley Hamlets ward. He is a politics and journalism student at the University of Worcester, a member of the Liberal Democrats and has held multiple roles in the Telford Young People’s Forum.

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Supporters network details

This document sets out what being a supporter means. Our supporters are independent and do not necessarily have links to each other, support each other or support every Centre policy. Centre also does not nessicarily agree with every policy position or statement they have made.

Become a supporter

Supporters can include both past and currently elected Councillors, Metro Mayors, Police and Crime Commissioners, MPs, Members of the House of Lords. If you want to be a supporter make sure to contact us.