Angela Richardson | |
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Deputy Chairwoman of the Conservative Party | |
Assumed office 26 March 2024 | |
Leader | Rishi Sunak |
Preceded by | Luke Hall |
Member of Parliament for Guildford | |
Assumed office 12 December 2019 | |
Preceded by | Anne Milton |
Majority | 3,337 (5.7%) |
Personal details | |
Born | Angela Joy Richardson [1] 21 October 1974 Auckland,New Zealand |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse | Jeremy Bruce Richardson |
Children | 3 |
Profession | Investment banking operations |
Website | angelarichardson |
Angela Joy Richardson [1] (born 21 October 1974) [2] is a British Conservative Party politician,who has served as a Deputy Chairwoman of the Conservative Party since 26 March 2024 and as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Guildford since the 2019 general election. [3]
In May 2019,Richardson stood for election to Waverley Borough Council in the ward of Cranleigh East,but failed to win a seat after she was pushed into fifth place by three Liberal Democrats and a Conservative candidate. [4] She was elected to Cranleigh Parish Council later the same month. [5]
Following incumbent MP Anne Milton's resignation from the Conservative Party in opposition to the Brexit policies of Prime Minister Boris Johnson,Richardson was selected as the party's candidate for the Guildford constituency. She was elected at the 2019 general election,defeating Milton,who contested the election as an independent candidate. She was sworn into the House of Commons on 18 December 2019. [1]
She was also elected as a vice-chair of the APPG for Australia and New Zealand. [6]
Richardson served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the ministerial team at the Department for Education, [7] and following this,to Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove. [8] On 3 November 2021,she was fired from her PPS role after abstaining on a government-backed amendment to overhaul the Commons' disciplinary process in response to the proposed suspension of Owen Paterson. [8] She was reinstated to her PPS role the following day. [9] She ultimately resigned as PPS in January 2022,with her resignation made public after the publication on 31 January of Sue Gray's report on breaches of lockdown restrictions in Downing Street. [10]
On 26 March 2024,she was appointed as a Deputy Chairwoman of the Conservative Party,to replace Luke Hall who had been appointed Minister of State for Skills,Apprenticeships and Higher Education. [3]
Richardson was born in West Auckland,New Zealand. She previously worked briefly [11] in the City of London in investment banking operations. She has three children. [12] Richardson lives in Guildford,Surrey,in her constituency. [13]
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