Richard Walker

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Person.png Richard Walker  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(businessman)
NationalityBritish
Member ofWEF/Young Global Leaders/2019
InterestsWEF
PartyLabour, Conservative
Iceland supermarket executive chairman; WEF/Young Global Leaders 2019

Richard Walker is a British businessman who is executive chairman Chairman of Iceland Supermarket, the company his father Malcolm Conrad Walker founded in 1970.

Political ambitions

A former Tory donor, in January 2024 he publicly switched support from Conservative to Keir Starmers Labour Party.[1] This was after his failure to be selected as a Conservative parliamentary candidate in the next general election.[2]

Walker is also chair of the environmental campaign group Surfers Against Sewage.[3]


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