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About Richard Hopkin
Richard Hopkin was born, raised and has a home in the Swansea Valley. He speaks Welsh and was educated at his local comprehensive school in the 1970s, where he benefited from excellent teaching and went on to Cambridge University where he studied law. During his successful 30-year career, he has worked as a solicitor and in financial services. Today he works for a trade body and specialises in financial regulation. He lives with his civil partner. Richard has a strong track record of voluntary service for the community. He acts as a trustee for a number of charities and has helped run a voluntary group providing free legal advice to disadvantaged groups. He lost his job in 2008 and was unemployed for nearly two years so has experienced personally the difficulties and challenges of being out of work. During this time, he set up a job club to help people back into employment. Richard knows Cardiff well having stood here for the Welsh Assembly in 2011 when the Welsh Conservatives won a record share of the vote and became the official opposition for the first time. He also stood as a candidate in the May 2014 European elections, campaigning across Wales and representing the party in the media including on S4C. Richard feels strongly that both the Labour Party and their partners in the Welsh Assembly, the Liberal Democrats, continue to let Wales down. Despite the best efforts of NHS staff in Wales, Labour’s mismanagement and budget cuts have created a failing health service. Our schools are underperforming and failing to equip our children for the competitive global economy. Cardiff Council needs to manage its budget sensibly, not impose record increases in council tax on local residents. Times are, of course, tough for hard working taxpayers. But the Conservatives’ Long Term Economic Plan is the only way to restore prosperity, pay off our debts and leave a strong economy to secure a better future for our children and grandchildren. On Europe, only the Conservatives can and will deliver an In-Out Referendum. A Lib Dem vote will put Ed Miliband in Downing Street and deny us the right to decide our future. If we fail to secure a meaningful re-negotiation with the EU, then the British people can decide to leave. The general election in May 2015 will be the most important for a generation. The choice is between competence
with the Conservatives and chaos with Labour. A vote for the Lib Dems will put Labour in power, and squander all the hard work of the last five years.
Richard Hopkin was born, raised and has a home in the Swansea Valley. He speaks Welsh and was educated at his local comprehensive school in the 1970s, where he benefited from excellent teaching and went on to Cambridge University where he studied law. During his successful 30-year career, he has worked as a solicitor and in financial services. Today he works for a trade body and specialises in financial regulation. He lives with his civil partner. Richard has a strong track record of voluntary service for the community. He acts as a trustee for a number of charities and has helped run a voluntary group providing free legal advice to disadvantaged groups. He lost his job in 2008 and was unemployed for nearly two years so has experienced personally the difficulties and challenges of being out of work. During this time, he set up a job club to help people back into employment. Richard knows Cardiff well having stood here for the Welsh Assembly in 2011 when the Welsh Conservatives won a record share of the vote and became the official opposition for the first time. He also stood as a candidate in the May 2014 European elections, campaigning across Wales and representing the party in the media including on S4C. Richard feels strongly that both the Labour Party and their partners in the Welsh Assembly, the Liberal Democrats, continue to let Wales down. Despite the best efforts of NHS staff in Wales, Labour’s mismanagement and budget cuts have created a failing health service. Our schools are underperforming and failing to equip our children for the competitive global economy. Cardiff Council needs to manage its budget sensibly, not impose record increases in council tax on local residents. Times are, of course, tough for hard working taxpayers. But the Conservatives’ Long Term Economic Plan is the only way to restore prosperity, pay off our debts and leave a strong economy to secure a better future for our children and grandchildren. On Europe, only the Conservatives can and will deliver an In-Out Referendum. A Lib Dem vote will put Ed Miliband in Downing Street and deny us the right to decide our future. If we fail to secure a meaningful re-negotiation with the EU, then the British people can decide to leave. The general election in May 2015 will be the most important for a generation. The choice is between competence
with the Conservatives and chaos with Labour. A vote for the Lib Dems will put Labour in power, and squander all the hard work of the last five years.
