Ryan Wain

Ryan Wain       ( political activist,  lobbyist)
On breakfast TV advocating for digital IDs
Born	Ryan Joseph Wain November 1987
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Member of	Labour Party/Future Candidates Programme/2021 to 2022, Tony Blair Institute
Interests	•  Covid passports •  Digital ID
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Ryan Wain attended the 2025 Labour Party conference and aspires to be a Blairite MP  Executive Director Politics In office July 2019 - Present Employer Tony Blair Institute for Global Change  Freelance Writer In office July 2018 - February 2023 Employer Ryan Wain Consulting  Chief Marketing Officer In office January 2017 - May 2019 Employer The Unlimited Group  Business/Brand Development In office July 2012 - January 2017 Employer TBWA London  Senior Policy Adviser In office November 2013 - May 2015 Employer Labour Party

Ryan Wain is the Political Director of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

He was on the shortlist but failed to be selected as Labour candidate for Knowsley constituency at the UK/General election/2024. The successful candidate, Anneliese Midgley, a local trade union official, was elected as a Labour MP with a majority of 18,319 votes over the Reform UK candidate.

United for Change

Wain was CEO of United for Change (UfC) which he founded alongside the multimillionaire businessman Simon Franks.

Wain stated he wanted United for Change to win the UK/General election/2019. UfC's ideological position was centrist, pro-Brexit and tough on immigration. In August 2019 Ryan Wain claimed that United for Change would help reclaim the centre ground, talking about a "short term window of opportunity" to replace Labour and the Conservative Party, and encouraged Labour MPs to leave their own party.

Wain later indicated UfC was just a "digital platform" and not a political party. It did not subsequently launch as a party to contest the 2019 general election, and in October 2021, UfC was legally dissolved.

PR

He had previously worked in the private sector, most notably at the international advertising agency TBWA. There, he worked on delivering campaigns for a number of clients, including the Labour Party.

Opinions

Covid passports

Ryan Wain was cited as an "expert" on "containing the coronavirus outbreak" in April 2020.

"Labour should back Covid passports: they will save lives and win votes".

Digital IDs

On 26 September 2025, Good Morning Britain heard that Digital IDs would be "a dystopian nightmare":

Executive Director of the Tony Blair Institute, Ryan Wain and Rebecca Vincent, Big Brother Watch's Interim Director, debate on whether digital IDs should be mandatory after Sir Keir Starmer is set to confirm that every adult in Britain will be required to have a digital ID card today, under new plans to help tackle illegal immigration.

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