Tom Morton

Tom Morton (born 2 October 1994) is a Brunanter politician and activist. A member of P70-Links, he serves in the House of Representatives and the Koningstad city council since 2019. Morton is also one of the leading figures of the Youth for Climate environmental protest actions in Brunant.

Biography
Morton was born in Koningstad. His father is a physician who works for the Royal Koningstad Hospital, while his mother a journalist for The Daily Post and a member of the ECO17 political party (formerly the Green Party) and has been the party's spokeswoman for its local Koningstad department. His grandfather, James Morton, served in the Koningstad city council for the Social Democratic Party in the 1970s and 1980s.

He graduated from the Royal University of Koningstad with a master's degree in chemistry in 2017. During his university years, Morton was a representative in the student council from 2013-2017. He became a member of the left-wing marxist P70-Links party in 2012 and became the leader of its Koningstad youth wing in 2014. In 2017, he was elected the nationwide leader of the P70-Links youth wing.

Morton participated in the 2015 Koningstad election, but was not elected. In 2017, he was given the seventh place on the P70-Links party list for the general election that year, however, he was not elected. Morton was elected a member of the Koningstad city council following the 2019 local election and a member of the House of Representatives following the 2019 general election.

Apart from his political career, Morton is well-known as a leading figure within the Youth for Climate environmental movement. A staunch environmentalist and vegetarian, he has made several public appearances in newspapers and on television.