Patricia Richardson (politician)

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Patricia Feldman Richardson is a British politician, most notable as the British National Party’s first Jewish candidate. She grew up in Stoke Newington; her father came from Romania while her mother was born in London's East End, of Lithuanian descent. Both sets of grandparents arrived in England pre 1900.

She won a council seat in Epping Forest and is a councillor for the Loughton Fairmead ward, both in Essex. Her husband, also a BNP candidate, won the nearby ward of Loughton Broadway.

Richardson says the party, which has been portrayed as far-right and xenophobic, is not anti-Semitic. In the 2008 local elections, she was elected in the Broadway ward.