Clive Furness Author

Sir Robin Wales joined the Labour Party in Scotland aged fifteen. Elected as a Labour councillor in Newham in 1982 he subsequently served as leader from 1995–2002 and then as the first directly elected Labour mayor in the country from 2002–2018. As a member of LOCOG he played a significant part in the 2012 London Olympics. Clive Furness joined the Labour Party when he was twenty-one and served at every level of his constituency party. He was a Newham councillor for twenty-one years. He spent most of his working life in the voluntary sector, working with homeless people and those with mental health problems. His thirty years of voluntary youth work saw him receive the BEM. He is a deacon of his church in Plaistow.