Richard Patrick Tracey, JP (8 February 1943 – 19 March 2020), was a British Conservative Party politician, journalist and news presenter.
Tracey was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford-upon-Avon, and studied law at the University of Birmingham, graduating with an LLB (Hons) degree.
[1] From 1966 to 1978, he worked as a presenter and reporter for the BBC, involved in major TV and radio current affairs programmes and documentaries.
He campaigned to tighten the law on London transport strikes and celebrated the completion of the Overground rail line to Clapham Junction as well as striving to reduce pollution from buses and HGVs in Putney High Street and elsewhere.
The role and extent of non-party organisations in social media advertising during the UK general election of 2019 was examined by BBC journalist Rory Cellan-Jones.
Tracey was identified as the sponsor of a Facebook advert, which opposed the Labour Party's 2019 pledge to remove charitable status and tax exemptions from private schools in the United Kingdom.