Robert John Moreland (born 21 August 1941) is a British management consultant and Conservative Party politician.
[1] In 1972 he returned to Britain to become Senior Economist on the West Central Scotland Planning Study, a job which took two years.
Moreland became interested in politics, and at the October 1974 general election he was selected as Conservative Party candidate for Pontypool, a safe Labour seat in south Wales, where he lost with a reduced share of the vote.
[1] At the 1977 Conservative Party conference, Moreland spoke in favour of sales of council houses, arguing that up to 70% of tenants would like the opportunity to buy their home.
He was a moderate MEP, criticising the slow pace of reform in South Africa in an emergency debate in June 1980.
Since 2012 member of the partnership board for the Canal and River Trust (formerly British Waterways) for the South Wales and Severn region.