# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-ashworth
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:09.605Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-ashworth"
name: "Richard Ashworth"
slug: "richard-ashworth"
description: "Richard James Ashworth is a former British politician, who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 2004 until 2019. He formerly sat in the European Parliament for the Conservative Party, and was that party's leader there from March 2012 to November 2013. In April 2019 Ashworth defected to Change UK, but was not elected to the European Parliament at the 2019 election held the following month."
tagline: "British politician (born 1947)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Ashworth%2C_United_Kingdom-MIP-Europaparlament-by-Leila-Paul-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-09-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.47
  momentum:             1.030927835051546
  historical:           9.870518666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/RichardAshMEP"
    handle:    "RichardAshMEP"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.richardashworth.org/"
sources:
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    title: "Річард Ешворт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتشارد اشورث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth_(politician)"
    title: "Richard Ashworth (politician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ashworth"
    title: "Richard Ashworth"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2036303"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump