Zac Goldsmith

Frank Zacharias Robin "Zac" Goldsmith, MP (born 20 January 1975) is an English environmental journalist, entrepreneur and Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Richmond Park since winning the seat at the 2010 general election.

Goldsmith is the middle child of the late financier Sir James Goldsmith, who left him between £200 and £300 million from his £1.2 billion fortune (1997).

From 1998 to 2007, he was editor of The Ecologist magazine. During this time, he became a London campaigner and commentator on environmental issues. Goldsmith became a Conservative Party parliamentary candidate in 2005. That same year, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Conservative Quality of Life Policy Group, co-authoring its report published in 2007. He was placed on the party's "A-List" of prospective parliamentary candidates by David Cameron, the Leader of the Opposition, in 2006.

Through an open primary in March 2007, Goldsmith was chosen to contest the constituency of Richmond Park against the incumbent Liberal Democrats. In the 2010 general election, Goldsmith won the seat with a majority of 4,091 votes over the Liberal Democrat Susan Kramer.<ref...
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