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Richard Spring, Baron Risby

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49: 409:. Between 1997 and 2000 he was Opposition spokesman for Culture, Media and Sport. He was Opposition Spokesman for Foreign Affairs between 2000 and 2004 and Shadow Minister for the Treasury between 2004 and 2005. On 23 November 2009, Spring announced that he would stand down at the 423:
Between 2005 and 2010 he was a vice-chairman of the Conservative Party and vice-chairman of Conservative Business Relations as well. In 2005 he was appointed co-chairman of Conservative City Circle and in 2007 he founded Conservative City Future, of which he is Patron with
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From 2011 to 2015, Risby was the vice-chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for East Asian Business. In November 2012, Lord Risby was announced as one of nine prime ministerial trade envoys, with responsibility for Algeria and, in 2019, Lebanon.
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Risby is co-chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Ukraine. In his capacity as the then Chairman of the British Ukrainian Society, he co-chaired the Scenarios for Ukraine programme for the
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Lord Risby was on the EU External Affairs Committee in the Lords between 2015 and 2018. In 2020 to 2022 he was a member of the International Agreements Committee.
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Risby has been a director of several businesses and organisations, including Hawkley Oil and Gas Ltd and Minexco Petroleum Inc, and was the president of the
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Lord Risby has more than 20 years' experience in the financial sector. Following his graduation from Cambridge University, Spring started his career in the
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published a story detailing a sex encounter he had allegedly been involved in. The publication of the story was attacked as an example of paid
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He is a Patron of the London Magazine and of the Open Road charity, and in 2021 became chairman of the Advisory Council on Geostrategy.
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In November 2023, Risby initiated a parliamentary debate to persuade the UK Government to declare the Ukrainian Holodomor as genocide.
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award for accessibility. In 2009, he was awarded the Parliamentary Award for Road Safety in recognition of his community campaigning.
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has as good as asked for a privacy law. The Government and Opposition should no longer hesitate to produce it". Even the
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in the County of Suffolk. Lord Risby sits as a Conservative in the House of Lords.
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In 1994, he chaired a parliamentary enquiry into the taxation of horseracing.
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politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for
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in Davos. Since May 2022 he has been on the Russian Government black list.
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Guardian Unlimited Politics – Ask Aristotle: Richard Spring MP
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as Ministers of State at the Ministry of Defence (1996–97).
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Spring's resignation was seen as a blow to John Major's
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The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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as Minister for Trade and Industry (1995–96) and to
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Index

Richard Spring
The Right Honourable

West Suffolk
Matt Hancock
Bury St Edmunds
Eldon Griffiths
David Ruffley
Cape Town
Union of South Africa
Conservative
Alma mater
University of Cape Town
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Conservative Party
Bury St Edmunds
West Suffolk
House of Lords
Spring family
Cape Town
Rondebosch
Cape Town University
Magdalene College, Cambridge
John Henniker-Major, 8th Baron Henniker
City
Ashton-under-Lyne
1983 general election
1992 General Election
Bury St Edmunds
Parliamentary Private Secretary

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