He was born and raised in Leicestershire and arrived in the Staffordshire Moorlands town of Leek in 2007 after studying, living and working in Manchester, Sheffield and London. He is now the Chair of Governors at a local school, a District Councillor and Labour’s PPC for Congleton where he has the incumbent Tory MP Fiona Bruce in his, admittedly long-range, sights. Darren also runs a candidate's blog and can be found tweeting away here.