Richard James Sunley Tice was born on 13 September 1964 and is a British businessman and right-wing politician who has been Leader of Reform UK since 6 March 2021.
28 Facts About Richard Tice
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Richard Tice was a founder and co-chairman of the pro-Brexit campaign groups Leave.
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Richard Tice helped found the Brexit Party, later rebranded as Reform UK, and was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England constituency at the 2019 European Parliament election.
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Richard Tice held this role until the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU in January 2020.
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Richard James Sunley Tice was born on 13 September 1964 in Farnham, the third child of James S Tice and the horse trainer and philanthropist Joan Mary Tice DL OBE, who died on 26 April 2019.
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Richard Tice is a maternal grandson of the property developer Bernard Sunley.
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Richard Tice subsequently received a bachelor's degree in construction economics and quantity surveying from the University of Salford.
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Richard Tice then started working for the housebuilding and commercial property company founded by his grandfather called The Sunley Group in 1991.
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Richard Tice was its joint chief executive officer for 14 years before leaving the company in 2006.
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Richard Tice then ran his own debt advisory consultancy before joining the property investment group CLS Holdings in 2010.
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Richard Tice led major planning property applications in Vauxhall, London.
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Richard Tice left the company to become the CEO of the property investment firm, Quidnet Capital Partners LLP, having been removed from CLS' board as a result of a potential conflict of interest.
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Richard Tice produced a follow-up report on student finances called "Defusing the debt timebomb" which he sent to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond.
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Richard Tice felt that crime could be reduced if housing was better managed.
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Richard Tice was a director of the campaign group, Business for Sterling, which campaigned for the United Kingdom not to join the Euro currency in the late 1990s.
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In July 2015, Richard Tice co-founded, with the businessman Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit Leave.
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Richard Tice has written a number of articles advocating a no-deal Brexit.
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Richard Tice was the first to use the phrase, "no deal is better than a bad deal" in relation to Brexit in July 2016 which was later used in the then prime minister Theresa May's Lancaster House speech outlining the government's approach to negotiations in January 2017.
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The Brexit Party, a conservative, Eurosceptic political party, was formed as an incorporated limited company on 23 November 2018, and Richard Tice was appointed a director of it on 8 May 2019.
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Richard Tice was the chairman when the party participated in the 2019 European Parliament election, under Nigel Farage's leadership.
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Richard Tice stood as a candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election.
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Richard Tice was first on his party's list in the East of England constituency, and was elected as one of three of its MEPs for there.
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In November 2019, it was announced that Richard Tice would be standing as the Brexit Party candidate for the Hartlepool constituency at the 2019 general election.
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On 6 March 2021, it was announced that Richard Tice would become Leader of Reform UK following Farage's resignation.
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In March 2021, Richard Tice announced he would be the Reform UK candidate for the Havering and Redbridge constituency in the 2021 London Assembly election.
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In December 2021, Richard Tice stood in the by-election for the Old Bexley and Sidcup constituency following the death of the sitting MP, James Brokenshire.
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Richard Tice began a relationship with the journalist Isabel Oakeshott in 2018 and separated from his wife in March 2019.
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Richard Tice was a member of the governing body of Northampton Academy between 2005 and 2019 and has been vice chair of trustees at Uppingham School.