Richard Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester

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The Right Honourable
The Lord Faulkner of Worcester
Born Richard Oliver Faulkner
(1946-03-22) March 22, 1946 (age 78)
Manchester
Education Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood
Alma mater Worcester College, Oxford
Occupation Politician
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Susan Heyes (m.1968)
Parent(s) Harold Ewart and Mabel Faulkner
Relatives David Faulkner (brother)

Richard Oliver Faulkner, Baron Faulkner of Worcester is a Labour Party politician.

Educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood, and at Worcester College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics, he worked as a researcher and journalist for the Labour Party since when he has been active in politics. He was an unpaid communications advisor to the Leader of the Labour Party in the 1987, 1992 and 1997 general elections.

He contested Devizes for the Labour Party in the 1970 election and then again in February 1974 election. He contested Monmouth for the Labour Party in the October 1974 election and Huddersfield West for the Labour Party in the 1979 election.[1]

He was raised to the peerage in 1999, as Baron Faulkner of Worcester, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton.[1][2] He has served on a number of parliamentary committees, and lists his political interests as transport, sport, human rights, smoking and health, and sex equality.[1]

Married to Susan (née Heyes), he has two daughters. His brother is the civil servant David Faulkner.

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  2. The London Gazette: no. 55558. p. 7817. 20 July 1999.

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