Constituency : Teignbridge 2001-2010
Richard took Teignbridge from the Tories at the third attempt.
Richard was born in Surrey. He was educated at Walton County Secondary School and Oxford Polytechnic. He became an architectural consultant. He stood at Chislehurst in 1987 coming a distant second. He came close to taking Teignbridge in 1997. He is a Catholic.
Richard became Heritage spokesman. He called for tighter restrictions on Sunday trading.
Richard easily defeated Boris Johnson's father for the Tories in 2005.
In 2009, Richard was criticised in the expenses scandal for spending too much on furnishing his flat according to rules which the Fees Office hadn't issued and had't applied when he made his claims.
Richard voted against the fox hunting ban because it did not compensate those who earned their living from it. He called for Britain to withdraw from the Eurovision Song Contest over the biased voting.
In 2010 boundary changes abolished Teignbridge and Richard stood for the successor seat of Newton Abbott. He was narrowly defeated by the Tories, a result that was put down to the expenses scandal. He stood again in 2015 but was well beaten. He also lost his council seat in 2017 and failed to be elected as Devon and Cornwall's Police and Crime Commissioner in 2016.
He is now 66.
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