Richard Bacon MP is a politician and was elected as Member of Parliament for South Norfolk in 2001. Since then he has been an active constituency MP and has been re-elected three times to represent the South Norfolk constituency, each time with an increased majority. He was educated at The King’s School, Worcester before going to the London School of Economics, where he took a First Class Honours degree in politics and economics. He also studied at the Goethe Institut in Berlin. After working in investment banking and financial journalism, Richard became an Associate Partner of Brunswick, a leading financial public relations consultancy, before setting up his own business, the English Word Factory, advising large companies on communications. Richard’s book Conundrum: Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong – and What We Can Do About It, published in 2013, was described by the Daily Telegraph as performing “a valuable public service”.

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The Sunday Herald Debate: The New Auld Alliance: Alyn Smith, Richard Bacon MP, John Kampfner, andMerry Somerset Webb debate Scotland’s future in Europe. (2016)