Angela Joy Richardson (born 21 October 1974) is a British
Conservative Party
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politician, who has served as the
Member of Parliament
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(MP) for
Guildford
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is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
Waverley Borough Council Waverley may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Waverley'' (novel), by Sir Walter Scott
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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. She was elected to Cranleigh Parish Council later the same month.
Following incumbent MP
Anne Milton
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's resignation from the Conservative Party in opposition to the
Brexit
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policies of Prime Minister
Boris Johnson
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, Richardson was selected as the party's candidate for the
Guildford
Guildford ()
is a town in west Surrey, around southwest of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The name "Guildf ...
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
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on 18 December 2019.
She was also elected as a vice-chair of the
APPG
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for Australia and New Zealand.
Richardson served as a
Parliamentary Private Secretary
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(PPS) to the ministerial team at the
Department for Education
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Michael Gove
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. 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. She was reinstated to her PPS role the following day. 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.
New Zealand
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. She previously worked briefly in the
City of London
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in
investment banking
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operations. She has three children. Richardson lives in
Ewhurst, Surrey
Ewhurst is a rural village and civil parish in the borough of Waverley in Surrey, England. It is located south-east of Guildford, east of Cranleigh and south of Shere.
The parish includes the smaller hamlets of Ellen's Green and Cox Green n ...