Clayton King (born 3 November 1957) was a British Conservative politician who served as a member of the Bromland Town Council in Lincolnshire from 7 April 2013 to 2 July 2017, preceding Ruhi Thakre.
Biography[]
Clayton King was born in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England on 3 November 1957, and he became a successful solicitor in the small town of Bromland, Lincolnshire before entering politics with the Conservative Party. King was elected to the Bromland Town Council on 7 April 2013, one of 11 Conservatives elected to the 30-seat town council. King was a moderate one-nation conservative, and he opposed discrimination against Bromland's South Asian immigrant population. On 2 July 2017, on the same day as new elections to the town council, King defected to Labour in protest against Mayor Arabella Marsh's ambivalence towards UKIP's racist anti-immigrant campaign, and he lost re-election that same day, with Ruhi Thakre succeeding him.