About Richard Fuller (Conservative politician)
Richard Quentin Fuller (born 30 May 1962) is a British politician who has been Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury since November 2024, having previously served as the interim Chairman of the Conservative Party from July to November 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for North Bedfordshire, formerly North East Bedfordshire, since 2019. A member of the Conservative Party, he represented Bedford from 2010 to 2017. Fuller previously served as the Economic Secretary to the Treasury from July to October 2022. In the 2024 Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for political and public service. He had previously achieved prominence as leader of the Young Conservatives from 1985 to 1987. == Early life == Fuller was educated at Hazeldene School and Bedford Modern School (then a direct grant school), followed by University College, Oxford (1981–84), where he studied Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Harvard Business School (1987–89) for his MBA. Fuller was President of the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) in 1983. Following the failed nomination of Conservative candidates for the Oxford University Student Union (OUSU), Oxford's student paper Cherwell ran the headline "OUCA falls apart" and Fuller lost a vote of confidence but remained in office. As President, Fuller also provided the first Conservative Party platform for the African National Congress, then a proscribed terrorist organisation in then still apartheid South Africa but not proscribed in the UK. == Professional career == Fuller joined the management consultancy company, LEK Consulting in 1984 as part of their first intake of university graduates. In 1986, Fuller transferred to Sydney to help establish the Australian practice of LEK. After Harvard Business School, he worked in South Korea, before rejoining LEK in Australia and then working for two years on assignment with the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) in Manila, Philippines.
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