I am a doer, not a talker.

I grew up in a single-parent household on a council estate. I went to a failing school and wasted the first part of my life refusing to accept my personal responsibility. I eventually realised I was holding myself back and my life started to improve immediately.
 
I started my first business as a market trader, moved into wholesale, and then started a completely different career at Manchester Airport. I had an industrial accident so had to leave. I found a new job at Manchester Council as a Youth Intervention Officer and then as a Community Safer Coordinator. During this time, I won a handful of awards for reducing crime and antisocial behaviour. I have also advised three different Prime Ministers on crime reduction and tackling rough sleeping.

When austerity hit in 2011, I took redundancy and used my payout to set up and fund a charity to help young people avoid a life of crime. My charity, Mancunian Way, set up projects to also address homelessness and helped to uncover child rape cases. The charity is now multi-award winning and in 2019 I was awarded an MBE for this work from our late Queen.

Last year, I finally realised my country was failing so decided to run for Mayor of Greater Manchester against Andy Burnham. I came third place and beat the LibDems, Greens and Reform UK. After the election, I knew my fight was not over. I had lost a battle, not the war.
 
Solving social problems has been my career for two decades. Experience has taught me that problems are resolved through hard work, dedication, and holding people accountable. I do not have time for pink and fluffy nonsense, incompetence or excuses.
 
I do not need to be popular, liked or admired. I only need to be respected as someone who does as he says. I say a lot and I will do a lot.
 
The first step of introducing honour into our political system is to vote into office someone who already possesses it.