About Kiron Reid

Kiron Reid: a long term record of action and experience within the Liberal Democrats

Kiron Reid was most recently city councillor for Anfield and Assistant to the first and current Lib Dem Leaders of the Council, Mike Storey and Warren Bradley. He was subsequently Assistant Executive Member (to Mike Storey) dealing with major regeneration projects. He stood in Walton in the 2005 General Election. Professionally he is a lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool and trained as a barrister in London. These pages were originally created when applying for a party selection in Oldham East & Saddleworth and are now maintained as a personal and political web site.

Brought up just outside Liverpool Kiron founded a youth branch for the party in Crosby constituency in 1987, ran the student group at Bristol University where he served on the Bristol West constituency executive, helped get the Lib Dem MP, Don Foster, elected in Bath and was active for the party in both Leeds and the East End of London. He was National Chair of the Young Liberal Democrats of England 1992-93 and first Chair of the new Liberal Democrat Youth and Students of England and Wales 1993-94.

Kiron studied Law at Bristol University and has previously taught Law at the Universities of Leeds and Kent. He lectures in Crime and Civil Liberties and his work has been published in the leading academic journals. Kiron has trained the people who train solicitors. He was a member of Merseyside Police Authority 1999 - 2003. He has given guest lectures at the Universities of Bordeaux, Bochum (in the Ruhr) and Sarajevo and Banja Luka in Bosnia and was the first international guest lecturer at the police academy in Banja Luka.

He has spoken on the winning side at an Oxford Union debate along with Lib Dem Baroness Shirley Williams and the local constituency MP, Evan Harris, against leading Tories.

Education:

Merchant Taylors Boys School, Crosby; University of Bristol.

Employment:

Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool from 1994 to date. Barrister at Law, Lecturer in Law and Senior Tutor. Details about research, publications and other duties are publicly available at the Liverpool University, Law School staff pages of the web site.

Council Experience:

Liverpool City Councillor for Anfield 1998-2007.

Parliamentary Experience:

1996 Euro by-election, Merseyside West; 1997 General Election Bootle; 2001 & 2005 General Elections Liverpool Walton. European Elections North West list 1999 (helping winning Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies).

Memberships:

Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International, Liberator magazine (editorial collective), Liberal International, Universities and Colleges Union, The Co-operative Group, Liberty, Haiti Support Group, Chocolate Tasting Club. An early supporter of the Slower Speeds Initiative for road safety.

Interests:

History (local and genealogy), member of CAMRA, playing the harmonica.

Kiron's Experience:

Kiron has significant experience dealing with local and national media and interviews

• Helped successfully elect Lib Dem MPs in Bath, Westmorland & Lonsdale (Tim Farron), Southport (Ronnie Fearn), Leicester South & Brent East among others

• Helped the regional party in many campaigns against the BNP and to develop the Lib Dem vote in derelict areas

• Experience of defeating both Labour and the Conservatives in urban and rural Britain getting Lib Dem councillors and MP's elected

• Regular media representative for the party to regional and national media

• Expert in civil liberties and policing on the BBC

• Speaker at the Oxford Union in a winning debate for the Lib Dems

• Trained the police in Bosnia on human rights

• An author of party policy on crime and policing

• Leading conference speeches on anti-terrorism, the peace process in Northern Ireland (cited by Nobel Prize winning Ulster Unionist Leader, David Trimble), civil liberties and health.

• Has helped Liberals abroad in Norway & Macedonia, assisted political training in Bosnia & Bulgaria and been an election observer in Albania & Macedonia.

Proven ability to communicate with people from all backgrounds in every area.