Sean Anstee

Sean Brian Anstee CBE (born July 1987[1]) is an English Conservative Party Politician and businessman[2] who was formerly the Leader of the Council on Trafford council and since 2008, has been a Councillor for the Bowdon ward. Anstee is also the Executive Director for Advisory, Public Affairs and PR at Cratus, a specialist local government consultancy. He was awarded a CBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list for services to local government.[3]

Anstee speaking as Trafford council leader in 2017

He stood as the Conservative candidate for Mayor of Greater Manchester in the 2017 election, achieving 128,752 votes (22.7%) and coming second behind Labour's Andy Burnham.[4][5]

Anstee grew up on a council estate in Partington, and attended Broadoak School, leaving aged 16 to take up an apprenticeship at Barclays in Timperley. He joined BNY Mellon in 2009.[6][7]. He later graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 with a degree in Business. [8]He has represented Bowdon on the council since 2008, and became Leader of the council in February 2014. At age 26, he was the youngest council leader in the UK.[9][10]

References
  1. Sean Brian ANSTEE Companies House Retrieved 16 April 2018
  2. https://group.telcom.uk. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "New Year's Honours list 2019". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2018-12-29.
  4. Rogerson, David. "GMCA Mayoral election results". www.gmelects.org.uk.
  5. Dudman, Jane (5 October 2016). "Manchester's Sean Anstee: if I'm good enough to do devo deal, I can be mayor". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  6. Andy, Bounds (11 April 2018). "Andy Burnham and Sean Anstee face off in Manchester derby". Financial Times. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  7. Williams, Jennifer (3 October 2016). "Sean Anstee announces he will run to be Tory mayoral candidate". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  8. https://www2.mmu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/board-of-governors/sean-anstee-cbe.php
  9. Emily, Heward (7 February 2014). "Trafford's new council leader Sean Anstee is country's youngest at 26". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  10. Williams, Jennifer (24 April 2017). "From the council house Tory to the Orthodox Jewish Ukip fan - there's nothing boring about the candidates to be Greater Manchester mayor". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
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