Alastair Singleton
Our democracy has never felt less secure during my lifetime. As a country we face a perfect storm: collapsing trust in our political system and those within it; an environment where truth can be hard to establish and where deliberate disinformation thrives, and a toxic erosion of hope in many of our communities, where people feel everything is stacked against them, where the social contract has failed and where the prospects for their children are corroding. They are prey to the snake oil salesmen of populism.
My career was as a Diplomat, working largely in the Middle East, and then in business, recruiting senior teams and designing organisations to meet the challenges ahead. In parallel, I have been a Magistrate, sat on numerous charity boards, including at national level, and served as a Liberal Democrat District Councillor, focussing on the Climate and Energy portfolio. In the 2024 General Election I co-led the MP Watch campaign which assembled a broad progressive alliance to help unseat Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Memberships include Compass, the Electoral Reform Society and Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine. My priorities are Truth and Integrity in Politics; Electoral Reform; Inequality and Tax Reform, and Dark Money and Interference in the political domain.