I stood as a Liberal Democrat candidate in the May 2023 local elections in the Cottingham North ward of East Riding of Yorkshire Council.

For quite a while myself and fellow Liberal Democrat Phil Redshaw were in the lead as the polling station boxes were emptied and the votes counted.

Alas it soon became clear that a Labour candidate, Alex Duke, was pulling ahead of me. In the end he won by 13 votes. That’s politics. He was a nice chap so after the result was formally declared I congratulated him and left.

On the plus side I was successful in being re-elected to Beverley Town Council. So I look forward to delivering some good things for the residents of Beverley.