Brandon Lewis

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Brandon Kenneth Lewis (born June 1971) is the Conservative Leader of Brentwood Borough Council, England.

Lewis was born in 1971 in Harold Wood, United Kingdom. He received a degree in Economics from the University of Buckingham and further law degrees from Buckingham and King's College London. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple and is a qualified Barrister and is a Company Director. He completed the London Marathon in 2005 ^[1].

Leiws became a councillor in May 1998 for Hutton South in Brentwood, and became Conservative Group leader in 2002. The Conservatives took control of Brentwood Borough Council in May 2004 following 12 years of Liberal Democrat control. Lewis was elected Leader of the Council on June 23, 2004. He was re-elected to the Council in the May 2006 local elections and continued as Council Leader, increasing the Conservative majority from 5 to 17 in that election. He is chairman of the Essex Local Government Association ^[2].

Lewis stood at the Conservative candidate for Sherwood in the 2001 general election, achieving a swing of 4.7% to the Conservatives. The re-elected Labour MP Paddy Tipping blamed the fall in his majority on 'a fall in voter turn-out' ^[3]. In the 2005 general election Lewis was Campaign Manager for Eric Pickles in the Brentwood and Ongar constituency. Pickles more than recovered the ground he had lost at the previous election to Martin Bell who had challenged him as an Independent, and the Conservative share of the vote increased from 37% to 53%. Lewis has been placed on the 'A-List' of Conservative Party candidates ahead of the next general election, and has been selected as the Conservative candidate for Great Yarmouth for the General Election expected in 2009/2010 ^[4].