The West of England mayor election will be held on 1 May 2025
Reform UK has announced insurance veteran Arron Banks as its mayoral candidate for the West of England.
Banks was formerly in control of Somerset Bridge Group, which used to be known as Eldon Insurance and included the motor specialist GoSkippy brand. The business was sold to Arch Capital Group in 2021.
Before this, he led a reverse takeover of listed Brightside Group, with him also serving as the chief executive at the firm until 2012.
He started out at Lloyd’s in the underwriting department working on catastrophe risks. He then had brief stints at Aviva and Berkshire Hathaway.
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Banks was confirmed by Reform UK as its mayoral candidate for the West of England, which includes Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire, in a YouTube video.
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He said: “If I was a young person in the UK today, I’d leave.
“It’s our job to turn that around and really, it’s only Reform that’ve got the balls to turn this around.
“So, vote Banksy for Bristol.”
The election will be held on 1 May 2025.
Other candidates include Helen Goodwin for the Labour Party, Oli Henman for the Liberal Democrats, Mary Page for the Green Party, Independent Ian Scott and Steve Smith for the Conservative and Unionist Party.
His career began in 2019, when he joined a local north London newspaper after graduating from the University of Sheffield with a first-class honours degree in journalism.
He took up the position of deputy news editor at Insurance Times in March 2023, before being promoted to his current role in May 2024.View full Profile
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