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About Stephen Knight
- Leader of Lib Dem Group on Richmond Council
- Previous Lib Dem GLA Candidate: Winning 49,985 votes - the highest ever Lib Dem vote in a London Assembly seat
- 4 years as Deputy Leader of the Council responsible for finance and major projects
- Seasoned Campaigner - Campaigned for the party at every election over the past 22 years
- Expert on London Politics - Former senior adviser to the Liberal Democrats on London-wide policy
- Former Education Cabinet Member responsible for the UK's highest performing primary schools
Stephen has been an elected councillor for Teddington Ward in Richmond upon Thames since 1998 and is Leader of the 24-strong Liberal Democrat Group. He was Deputy Leader of the Council between 2006 and 2010 and Cabinet Member for Resources. Stephen was Susan Kramer's successful election agent at the 2005 General Election. At the 2008 London Assembly election he was the Liberal Democrat candidate for the South West London constituency and achieved the highest ever Lib Dem vote in a GLA constituency - 49,985 votes.
As Deputy Leader of the Council, Stephen was involved in Richmond's innovative environmental policy of charging owners of gas-guzzlers more for car parking and lead the project to rebuild a local secondary school. Stephen was named in the "up and coming" section of the London Evening Standard's "London's Most Influential People 2007" supplement and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts in recognition of his work in local government addressing environmental and sustainability issues.
Stephen is the Liberal Democrat councillor member of the Board of Standards for England, the body which promotes high standards of ethical behaviour by elected councillors.
Stephen serves on the Local Government Association's Workforce Programme Board, as well as a number of local government employment bodies, such as the National Employers Organisation for School Teachers, the National School Support Staff Negotiating Body and similar bodies for youth and community workers and educational inspectors.
Stephen works with the Improvement and Development Agency for local Government providing Peer support and advice to councillors in other local authorities around the UK, including Newham, Lambeth, Milton Keynes, Bedford, Swansea and Cardiff.
Stephen was born in Wandsworth and was brought up in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames since the age of 11. He went to local state schools before studying at Oxford and Southampton Universities. At University in Southampton he was elected President of the Students' Union. He later worked for London Councils (formerly Association of London Government) as a poltical adviser to senior Liberal Democrat councillors in the Capital. He is Chair of Governors of a local Primary School and was a founding Trustee of Richmond Youth Partnership. Stephen lives with his partner Jennifer in Teddington and they are expecting their first child in December. Stephen also has a grown-up step-daughter, Carmen, from his previous marriage.
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