Richard Lawson

Richard Lawson may refer to:

Richard Lawson (Green politician)

Richard Lawson is an environmentalist and politician in England.

Born in 1946, Lawson became a doctor in 1969 and joined the Ecology Party, forerunner of the Green Party, in about 1977. In 1979, he joined a general practice in Congresbury, Somerset. He was elected to Woodspring District Council in 1986. At the 1987 general election he stood in Weston-super-Mare, taking 3.6% of the votes cast, and at the 1989 European Parliament election, he took 23% of the vote and second place in Somerset and Dorset West.

In 1992, Lawson became Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales, alongside Jean Lambert. He stood again in Weston-super-Mare at the general election, but his share of the vote fell to 2.0%. Lawson later served as Health Speaker of the party.

In 1996 he authored Bills of Health, a study of the impact of political and economic conditions on the National Health Service (NHS).

He stood in Woodspring at the 1997 and 2001 general elections, and was second on the party's South West England list at the 1999 European election, but never came close to election. At the 2009 European election, he took the fourth place on the party's South West England list.

Richard Lawson (far right activist)

Richard Lawson has been a member of various far right groups in the United Kingdom.

Lawson was the Student Organiser for the British National Front. In 1976 he was part of the Strasserite split away from the National Front which formed the National Party.

He founded the NF-affiliated IONA (Islands of North Atlantic) group in the mid-1980s for the purpose of "the study, revival, promotion and development of the islands of the North Atlantic". Presenting itself as an intellectual elite concerned with British culture and environment, it was closely linked to the far right magazine Scorpion. IONA has subsequently been characterised as a Nazi group.

Lawson contributed articles to Michael Walker's Scorpion magazine, as well as co-organising at least one conference with the publication.

In 1989 Lawson was involved with setting up the Transeuropa Collective to discuss "European identities, autonomies and initiatives". Transeuropa published ten issues of a journal titled Perspectives. The magazine was criticised by Searchlight magazine for anti-semitism and for infiltrating the green movement.Here & Now magazine's review stated that Perspectives "says 'Green' but means 'White'".