Ivor Richard, Baron Richard

Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard of Ammandford (* May 30, 1932 in Cardiff ) is a British politician. He was a member of the House and is a member of the Upper House.

Life

Richard was born in 1932 in Cardiff, the son of a mining engineer. After the visit of Cheltenham College and then Pembroke College, Oxford, where he in 1953 with a BA graduated in law, he was in 1955 admitted to the Bar, and then worked as a trial lawyer in London and until 1974. He represented, among others, also one of the Great Train Robbery in 1963 involved to justice. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1971.

Policy

Richard retired in 1964 as Labour MP for Barons Court in the British House of a. Two years later repeated the Labour Party their election victory and Richard was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Defense Denis Healey. In 1969 he was responsible for the Army in the area of Defence before a year later, the Tories came to power again. Richard was opposition spokesman for the Post and Communications and in 1971 Deputy foreign policy spokesman of his group, which he remained until 1974.

In the elections to the House in February 1974, the Labour Party was formed, although again the government, but Richard could not win his seat and not get into parliament. He was appointed by Harold Wilson as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. This he remained until 1979. In January 1981, he was from the successor to Roy Jenkins as European Commissioner in Brussels. Christopher Tugendhat as other British Commissioner responsible for the budget, financial control and taxation, while Richard took over the area of ​​social, employment, education and training. In 1084, he left the Commission in Brussels and was instead 1985 Board Member of the World Trade Centre Wales Ltd. in Cardiff. He was raised to the peerage in 1990 (Life Peer ) and moved into the House of Lords, where in 1992 he took over the leadership of the opposition. After the victory of the Labour Party under Tony Blair in the general election on 1 May 1997 Richard was again a member of the government. He was appointed Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords on May 3, 1997 Blair's Cabinet. As early as 1998 it was replaced by Margaret Jay.