YOU may have seen our story that south Essex businessman James Sinclair wants to be the next directly elected mayor of Essex.

In a section titled “life imitating art”, our sister paper, YourThurrock interviewed James on April 1st 2010 when he announced that he wanted to stand as MP.

Of course, this was fifteen years ago when James was a children’s entertainer. Fifteen years later, James is overseeing a multi million pound business and is deadly serious about a political career.