as an Independent councillor, allegedly from dissatisfaction that he had not been selected by Labour as a future Mayor of Worcester. At the council's AGM on 3 June 2014, Amos accepted the Conservative nomination as Mayor of Worcester, and as Mayor, voted for the Council administration to change from Labour to Conservative. Move back to the Conservatives Following the May 2015 local government elections and hours before his tenure as Mayor of Worcester was to end, Alan Amos announced he was rejoining the Conservative party. Controversy In 2016 Amos claimed women make up rape. He is known for his right-wing views on immigration, when in 2019, 23 child asylum seekers were resettled in Worcestershire. He has also made derogatory remarks about cyclists when he called cyclists "... morons and dangerous" as well as describing courier riders as "...Deliveroo Idiots". References External links Worcester City Council They Work For You 1952 births Living people Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Councillors in the London Borough of Enfield Councillors in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Labour Party (UK) councillors UK MPs 1987–1992 People from St Albans Alumni of St Peter's College, Oxford Presidents of the Oxford University Conservative Association Alumni of the UCL Institute of Education People educated at St Albans School, Hertfordshire English LGBT politicians LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates 21st-century LGBT people