Ruhi Thakre (born 12 May 1987) was a British Conservative politician who served on the Bromland Town Council from 2 July 2017 to 12 August 2019, succeeding Clayton King and preceding Sierra Blagden.
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Ruhi Thakre was born in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India on 12 May 1987 to a Hindi family, and she was raised in Bromland, Lincolnshire, England, where her family moved when she was six years old. Raised in a working-class Tory household, Thakre joined the Conservative Party at the age of sixteen and became a lawyer in 2010. In 2017, she ran for the Bromland Town Council to contest the seat of Conservative turncoat Clayton King, who had defected to Labour to protest the Tories' reluctance to condemn the racism of UKIP. Thakre easily won the Tory "safe seat", and King - who placed last on the already-disadvantaged Labour list - was defeated for re-election. However, she lost re-election to UKIP candidate Sierra Blagden in 2019.