[1] Comer was born in Bristol, but has lived in a number of places, mostly in the south west of the UK.
He is employed as a civil servant, and first became active in politics as a teenager, joining the Liberal Party at 18.
He has been a union representative at local, regional and national level since 1989 in a variety of negotiating posts.
[3][4] At a Council meeting in May 2007 Comer proposed the establishment of a select committee on prostitution.
Labour and the Conservatives blocked the proposal, saying the council lacked the funding or the staff who could be dedicated solely to such a specific problem.