Mike Barnard lives in Wiltshire, with a professional background in Automotive Engineering management and the UK regulatory sector. Married with a German wife he has experienced first-hand the divisiveness and economic destructiveness of Brexit and would welcome seeing the UK back in the EU, but is realistic on the timescale. A life-long Lib-Dem voter but increasingly incensed by the UK’s increasing wealth and political inequalities, he recently defected to become a Labour party member.