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Alan Francis (politician)
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Alan Francis is a British politician, a former Open University researcher and Transport consultant, who served as Transport Spokesperson of the Green Party and Chair of its executive from 1998 until 2000. Francis also ran a computer graphics consultancy. He has campaigned for many years for governments (of all colours) to switch priorities from road to rail. In this capacity he has been Chair of MK Forum and MK Rail Users Group. He remarked "We support charges on motoring which make the car pay the true costs of its use and this could certainly be one way of doing it." with Frances arguing “we need extra capacity on our rail system if we want to fulfil our other commitments to switching freight and passengers from roads and air onto rail”. In the 2015 general election, Francis stood for the Green Party in Buckingham against Speaker John Bercow. Francis was among a group of Green Party members who set up set a foodbank store outside then Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith's Grade-II listed 16th century mansion in Swanbourne in 2015 to protest the welfare cuts his government had implemented. At the 2019 General Election Francis stood for the Green Party in Milton Keynes South. Family Alan is listed as single. 
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