Richard Page

Richard Lewis Page (born 22 February 1941) is a former Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979, and from 1979 to 2005.

Page re-entered Parliament shortly afterwards, when he won the safe Conservative seat of South West Hertfordshire in a by-election in December that year.

Page was the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Trade and Industry under John Major, with responsibility for small business, Sustainable energy, biotechnology, coal, oil; as well as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, the UK's nationalised nuclear power corporation.

Outside of high office, Page won the Lords and Commons Motor car race at Brands Hatch and Donnington on three occasions.

He was one of only 13 Conservative MPs who spoke and voted against the decision to invade Iraq (18 March 2003) and the way the re-construction progressed.