Richard Tice

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Richard Tice
MEP
File:Richard Tice campaigning in London in May 2018.jpg
Tice in May 2018
Chairman of the Brexit Party
Assumed office
12 April 2019
Leader Nigel Farage
Preceded by Office established
Member of the European Parliament
for East of England
Taking office
2 July 2019
Succeeding Patrick O'Flynn
Personal details
Born Richard James Sunley Tice
September 1964 (age 59–60)
Farnham, Surrey, England, UK
Nationality British
Political party Brexit Party (2019-present)
Relations Bernard Sunley (grandfather)
Education Uppingham School
University of Salford
Occupation CEO, Quidnet Capital
Founder of Leave Means Leave and former co-chair of Leave.EU

Richard James Sunley Tice (born September 1964)[1] is a British entrepreneur, politician and Member of the European Parliament. He has been chairman of the Brexit Party since 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom.

Tice is CEO of the asset management group Quidnet Capital LLP, which has around £500 million of property under management. He was CEO of the real estate group CLS Holdings from 2010 to 2014. He has campaigned on education[2] and housing,[3] and is best known for his support of Brexit as a founder of Leave Means Leave and a former co-chair of Leave.EU.[4]

Tice was elected as a Member of the European Parliament for the East of England at the 2019 European Parliament election.[5]

Early life

Tice is the grandson of the property developer Bernard Sunley,[6] and his mother is Joan M. Tice DL.[7]

He was born in Farnham, Surrey, and brought up in the Midlands. He was educated at a prep school in Northamptonshire and then Uppingham School,[8] to which he went in 1978.[8] He subsequently received a bachelor's degree in construction economics and quantity surveying at the University of Salford.[9]

Career

After graduation, in 1987, he started his career with the housing developer London and Metropolitan.

During the recession in 1991, Tice started a housebuilding and commercial property company called The Sunley Group.

The Sunley Group sold up in 2006.[10] Tice then ran a debt advisory consultancy before joining CLS Holdings in 2010. Tice is now CEO and a partner at Quidnet Capital.[11]

Voluntary activity

Tice has been a governor of Northampton Academy since 2005 and was chairman of governors for his first five years there. He is also vice-chairman of trustees and chairs the finance committee at Uppingham School.

From 2005 to 2010, he was a trustee of the educational charity United Learning Trust and is involved in the charitable foundation established by his grandfather in the 1960s, the Bernard Sunley Foundation.

Politics

Until joining the Brexit Party, he was a member of the Conservative Party.[12] He reportedly considered running for the Conservative nomination for the London mayoral election in 2020.[13]

Brexit

Tice founded Leave Means Leave shortly after the 2016 EU referendum. He co-chairs it with the businessman John Longworth. In October 2017, they were placed jointly at Number 90 on Iain Dale's list of the "Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right".[14]

In July 2015, Tice co-founded Leave.EU,[15] which he left a year later, soon after the referendum.

Tice, Arron Banks, Andy Wigmore, Raheem Kassam, Nigel Farage and Robert Mercer are sometimes referred to by sections of the media as the "Bad Boys of Brexit", a group who bankrolled and facilitated Brexit.[16]

Education

In addition to his work with schools, Tice wrote a 2008 report for the think tank Reform called "Academies: A model education?".

In 2017, Tice co-wrote a pamphlet, "Timebomb: how the university cartel is failing Britain’s students", which included recommendations on how to expand two-year degrees.[17] Tice produced a follow-up report on student finances called "Defusing the debt timebomb" which he sent to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond.[18] His intervention was followed by a government announcement of a student funding review in February 2018;[19] the Augar review reported in June 2019.[20]

Housing

A long-time contributor to the magazine Property Week, Tice is a regular commentator on developments within the property world.[21] In a May 2018 article on the Conservative Home website, Tice argued for the importance of expanding the availability of homes for people on lower incomes and how this could be achieved more effectively.[22] He explored the connections between badly managed housing and crime.

Tice is a vocal critic of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, arguing that he has not done enough on crime and community, basing his argument on his experience visiting London estates.[23] He has argued that Conservatives should accept their share of the blame where spending cuts have led to the loss of youth centres.[22]

Personal

Tice is married and has three children.[24]

Other

Tice is a sports fan who enjoys long-distance bike rides.[25] According to his personal website, he has completed the Cresta Run around 500 times.[26]

References

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  16. ↑ Ed Caesar, "The Chaotic Triumph of Arron Banks, the “Bad Boy of Brexit”", The New Yorker, 18 March 2019.
    - Erin Durkin, "'Bad boys of Brexit' were guests at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club", The Guardian, 21 March 2019.
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  20. ↑ Justine Greening, "Proposals to reform UK student finance would reverse social mobility", Financial Times, 3 June 2019
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