I'll give you a reason why we can't look at it as just a public health issue. In fact, I'll give you 30 million reasons. That's how much the NRA spent to make sure that Donald Trump was elected, when I was growing up, the NRA used to be a gun safety and hunting organization. Now it's a dark money field, political organization, that does nothing than drive us apart.

Steve Bullock

Sir Steve Bullock is the first directly elected mayor of the London Borough of Lewisham. Born in Redcar, North Yorkshire, Bullock began his career as a van driver for Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea Urban District Council in 1972. He later worked as a policy adviser under Ken Livingstone at the Greater London Council, as Chief Executive of Greenwich Community Health Council and as Head of the Labour Group Office at the Local Government Association. Having served on the independent Commission for Local Democracy, he was a founder member of the New Local Government Network. Elected to the London Borough of Lewisham council in 1982, Bullock then went on to serve as Chair of Finance, Chair of Leisure, Deputy Leader, and Leader of the Council prior to standing down from the council in 1998. Following this, he served as Chair of University Hospital Lewisham NHS Trust. Bullock's partner is Kris Hibbert, a former fellow councillor. In 2001 he was elected back to Lewisham council in a by-election before seeking the Labour nomination for the new post of elected mayor, having publicly supported the proposal in the October referendum campaign.

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