Lee Holmes was Chairman of South Tees Conservatives from 2019 to 2022 and has political and campaigning experience across several decades.
Raised in a working-class family on the Yorkshire coast he studied law at Nottingham Law School before a career in the Civil Service and later moving into self-employment in the property sector.
Self-described as a 'recovering Conservative' he regards himself as one of a dying breed of One Nation, centrist Conservatives.'