Plymouth City Council- Southway
Chair of Growth and Infrastructure Overview and Scrutiny Committee
Richard served as Plymouth City Council Leader from 2022 to 2023.
His Cabinet team delivered the UK’s first Freeport and set record budget council savings totalling some £53m, straddling two financial years.
He served as Chairman of Plymouth’s Brexit, Infrastructure and Legislative Change committee from 2021-22 and serves as Infrastructure Committee chairman for 2023/4.
Richard was elected for Southway in May 2021.
He is a security book author and national news contributor on tech and security issues, most recently for the Sunday Express, London Evening Standard tech podcast and other news outlets. His Plymouth Live comment page can be found at: