The Labour candidate successfully unseated Andy Street on Saturday, winning by 1,508 votes and ending the Tory’s seven-year stint in the region.
Labour’s West Midlands mayor, Richard Parker, is originally from Bristol and was raised by a dock worker and school secretary.He went on to get a degree in economics before becoming a public finance accountant and joining the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1989.
He has been a Labour Party member for 35 years and managed PwC’s relationship with the party’s frontbench between 2010 and 2015. He left PwC in 2016 to establish his own management consultancy, RP Strategy, which works with SMEs and social enterprising on initiatives such as green investment, housing and the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.He has lived in the West Midlands since 1985.
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