Conservative Party Wilson served as a
Conservative Party on
Redbridge London Borough Council from 2009 to 2014. He was asked to resign from his cabinet position by council leader
Keith Prince and implied he had been accused of not dedicating enough time to his portfolio.
Reform UK Defection In 2020, after 21 years as a Conservative Party member, Wilson defected to
Reform UK. He told the
Evening Standard: "
Lockdown was what drove me out [of the Tories], but then since then, it's high tax, it's net zero, it's not controlling the borders - it's all these kinds of issues which make me not even want to think about going back."
Parliamentary and local candidacies Wilson ran in the
North East constituency at the
2021 London Assembly election, coming fifth with 4,251 votes (1.9%). He later contested the
June 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election, receiving 1.1% of the vote. At the
2022 Redbridge London Borough Council election, he came second-to-last in the
Bridge ward, polling 274 votes. Wilson was the Reform candidate for the parliamentary constituency of
Ilford North in the
2024 UK general election, where he finished fourth with 3,621 votes.
Member of the London Assembly For the
2024 London Assembly election, Wilson stood in
Havering and Redbridge, coming third, and receiving 19,696 votes. He was also the lead candidate on the Reform list for the London-wide region, and was the party's only candidate to be elected. At the time of his election, Wilson had been working as a pollster for Reform. == Business career ==