Nicola Richards is the Conservative MP for West Bromwich East, having first been elected to Parliament in 2019, gaining the seat from Labour with a majority of 1,593.
West Bromwich East includes the centre of West Bromwich, and is relatively deprived seat which for a number of years has possessed some of highest unemployment rates in the UK. A fifth of the electorate here are of Asian descent. This was one of the Conservative Party’s biggest gains in the 2019 General Election. The constituency was formerly represented by the retiring MP Tom Watson, the then Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. This area of West Bromwich had previously been a Labour seat ever since the Second World War. In the 2016 Brexit referendum 68.2% the electorate voted Leave.
Born in 1994, Nicola Richards grew up in Dudley and is one of the youngest Conservative MPs. Having formerly studied politics at Birmingham University, she previously worked for a number of local Conservative MPs .
She also worked in Public Affairs for the Jewish Leadership council, and is now Vice Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on antisemitism.
She was elected to Dudley Metropolitan Council in 2015.
Nicola supported Brexit in the 2016 EU Referendum.
Richards is a supporter of transgender rights and has called on the government to reform the 2004 Gender Recognition Act.
She is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Groups on Cancer, Holocaust Memorial, Left Behind Neighbourhoods, Parkrun, Skills and Employment, and British Sikhs.
Email – nicola.richards.mp@parliament.uk
Website – www.nicolarichards.org.uk
Twitter – @Nicola4WBE
