23 Facts About Richard Barnbrook

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Richard Barnbrook was born on 24 February 1961 and is a British politician and a former member of the London Assembly.

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Richard Barnbrook was elected as a British National Party list candidate in the 2008 election, though he resigned the BNP whip in August 2010 and subsequently sat as an independent.

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Richard Barnbrook had his first public art exhibition, of landscape watercolours, in 1971.

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Richard Barnbrook was awarded an interim Master of Arts degree from the California Institute of Arts and a PGCE from Greenwich University.

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In 1985, Richard Barnbrook won a research and lecturing UNESCO scholarship to Silpakorn University in Thailand.

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Richard Barnbrook went on to lecture in Thailand, Europe and across the USA.

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In 2000, Richard Barnbrook set up and was appointed managing director and artistic designer to the Jubilee Woods Trust, which he established to create new woodland plantations with the theme of environment, education and art, one for every county in the UK, to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee, to which Sting was one of the principal benefactors and Sir David Attenborough showed support.

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8.

Richard Barnbrook received acclaim for his designs for heraldic planting formations, but only one of these came to fruition in Sefton, north Liverpool.

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Previously an activist for the Labour Party, Richard Barnbrook joined the BNP in 1999.

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Richard Barnbrook was a BNP candidate in the 2005 general election.

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Richard Barnbrook received 4,916 votes in Barking coming third and only 27 votes behind the Conservative candidate, Keith Prince.

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Richard Barnbrook was the BNP's candidate for the 2008 London mayoral election, receiving 69,710 first preference votes and 128,609-second preference votes.

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Richard Barnbrook challenged for the leadership of the BNP in July 2010 but, like the other challengers, Butler and Adams, failed to obtain the very large number of nominations required of a challenger to trigger an election.

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Richard Barnbrook resigned the BNP whip in August 2010, following his demand for an inquiry into allegations of corruption and fiscal mismanagement against the party leadership.

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Richard Barnbrook was then expelled from the party and, from August 2010 to 2012 sat in the London Assembly as an independent member.

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In September 2008, Richard Barnbrook appeared in an interview in which he was asked about knife crime.

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In May 2009, a joint investigation by the Greater London Authority and Barking and Dagenham council concluded that Richard Barnbrook had brought "his office and the respective authorities into disrepute" as a result of the interview.

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On 24 September 2009, Richard Barnbrook was suspended for one month from Barking and Dagenham Council for bringing it into disrepute.

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Richard Barnbrook said he had made "unintentional inaccuracies" in the interview on knife crime due to his dyslexia and background noise.

20.

When Richard Barnbrook made reference to Barking and Dagenham it was by way of an illustration in the same way as he had cited incidents that had occurred in other parts of England.

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Counsel for the GLA made it clear that it had never been part of their case that Richard Barnbrook had intentionally given out false information.

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Richard Barnbrook's major painting and installation exhibitions between 1971 and 2009 include:.

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Richard Barnbrook married an American in 1998; the couple separated in 2004 due to personal differences and were divorced in 2008.