I am currently an NEC member for the Commercial Sector and Branch Secretary at ATOS working on the privatised National Savings and Investments account. It would be a great honour to be re-elected to the NEC. I started at ATOS in Blackpool in 2015. I have seen how a once proud National Savings Bank has been mismanaged under privatisation.

I have substantial experience working in the private sector. Over recent years, I have become an active member of PCS, becoming Branch Secretary in 2024 and being elected to the 2024/25 NEC. I meet with other Commercial Sector representatives regularly as well as being on the Private Sectors Members Association (PSMA). Over the past year, I have been involved in pay negotiations and an ongoing TUPE to our new employer Sopra Steria whilst also carrying out my ongoing duties as a lead union representative.

We cannot rely on a Starmer led Labour government to be on our side, both within the Civil Service and the commercial sector. We can win bigger pay rewards and better conditions in the commercial sector, we can do this by bolstering our membership, boosting our trade union engagements and making sure we keep our hard won union agreements in place.

This Labour Government promised the biggest wave of insourcing in a generation, we are yet to see that come to pass. We need to be just as strong with this middle of the road Labour Party as we were with the Tories. 

The future of the union is important and at 28 I feel I can inspire young members to come into the trade union movement. The only way we can continue to move forward as a movement is if we can inspire younger membership, let them know they have a voice and PCS will support them.

I am committed to try and help make a better future for the working class, for PCS members across the commercial sector and for our comrades in the civil service. I will continue to fight in the private sector for better pay, terms and conditions. We can build a fairer and more equal society if we have the fight and desire to do so