Patricia Richardson

Patricia Richardson ( Feldman, 1944/1945 – 2022/2023) was a British politician, most notable as the British National Party's first Jewish candidate, though she did not practise Judaism. In 2004, Richardson said the party was not anti-Semitic. Early life She grew up in Stoke Newington, close to the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Stamford Hill, as the youngest of three sisters. Her father, Abraham Feldman, came from Romania, while her mother, Fay Groner, was born in the East End of London, and was of Lithuanian descent. Her father died of a burst ulcer when she was 16, leaving her religiously Jewish mother to raise her and her siblings in Chingford. Political career BNP In the 2004 local elections, she won a seat on Epping Forest District Council, representing the Loughton Fairmead ward with a narrow majority of 13. Her husband, Thomas Richardson, also a BNP candidate, won the nearby ward of Loughton Broadway.