1. Richard James Sunley Tice was born on 13 September 1964 and is a British businessman and politician who has been Member of Parliament for Boston and Skegness and Deputy Leader of Reform UK since 2024, having previously been the chairman of the party from 2019 to 2021 and again briefly in 2024.
Richard Tice became the leader of Reform UK in March 2021, but stood down in June 2024 and was succeeded by Nigel Farage.
Richard Tice was a founder and co-chairman of the pro-Brexit campaign groups Leave.
Richard Tice had been a long-term donor and member of the Conservative Party until 2019, when he financed the founding of the Brexit Party, which was later renamed Reform UK.
Richard Tice owns one-third of the company that controls the party.
Richard Tice was elected a member of the European Parliament for East of England at the 2019 European Parliament election, holding this role until the UK's withdrawal from the European Union in January 2020.
Richard Tice was elected as the Reform UK MP for Boston and Skegness at the 2024 general election.
In June 2024, Richard Tice stood down as leader and was replaced by Farage, after his return to frontline politics.
Richard Tice stood in Boston and Skegness at the 2024 general election and was elected to Parliament after defeating the incumbent Conservative, Matt Warman.
Richard Tice was born on 13 September 1964 in Farnham, Surrey, son of the philanthropist Joan Mary Richard Tice who died in 2019.
Richard Tice is a maternal grandson of the property developer Bernard Sunley.
Richard Tice subsequently received a bachelor's degree in construction economics and quantity surveying from the University of Salford.
Richard Tice was its joint chief executive officer for 14 years before leaving the company in 2006.
Richard Tice then ran his own debt advisory consultancy before joining the property investment group CLS Holdings in 2010, leading major planning property applications in Vauxhall, London.
Richard Tice left the company to become CEO of the property investment firm Quidnet Capital Partners LLP, having been removed from CLS' board due to a potential conflict of interest.
Richard Tice was a television presenter for TalkTV before moving to GB News in September 2023.
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.
Richard Tice felt that crime could be reduced if housing was better managed.
Richard Tice was a director of the campaign group, Business for Sterling, which campaigned for the United Kingdom not to adopt the Euro in the late 1990s.
In July 2015, Richard Tice co-founded, with the businessman Arron Banks, the pro-Brexit Leave.
Richard Tice wrote a number of articles advocating a no-deal Brexit, and 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 by then-Prime Minister Theresa May in her Lancaster House speech outlining the government's approach to negotiations in January 2017.
The Brexit Party, a right-wing populist and Eurosceptic political party, was formed as an incorporated limited company on 23 November 2018, and Richard Tice was appointed a director on 8 May 2019.
Richard Tice was the chairman when the party participated in the 2019 European Parliament election, under Nigel Farage's leadership.
Richard Tice stood as a candidate at the 2019 European Parliament election.
Richard Tice was first on his party's list in the East of England constituency, and was elected as one of its three MEPs for that region.
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.
On 6 March 2021, it was announced that Richard Tice would become Leader of Reform UK following Farage's resignation.
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.
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.
In June 2024, Richard Tice stood down as leader and was replaced by Farage, after his return to frontline politics.
Richard Tice stood in Boston and Skegness at the 2024 general election and was elected to Parliament after defeating the incumbent Conservative, Matt Warman.
Richard Tice rejects that there is a scientific consensus on climate change, stating during an interview with Sky News in February 2025 that it was "absolute garbage" to suggest human activities were the main contribution to climate change.
In 2022, Richard Tice co-authored with Sam Ashworth-Hayes a paper for the Henry Jackson Society which argued that international sanctions failed to deter Russia from invading Ukraine and that this should be a lesson for the West's approach to China on the issue of Taiwan.
Richard Tice is divorced after a 24-year marriage with his ex-wife Emma, with whom he has three children.
Richard Tice began a relationship with the right-wing political journalist Isabel Oakeshott in 2018, and separated from his wife in March 2019.
Richard Tice grew up and first went to school in Northampton, and is a supporter of Northampton Saints rugby club.
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.