Richard Lane is an Events Manager for the Fabian Society and is a member of the National Executive of LGBT Labour. He spent much of 2008 working on the Presidential election in the United States, firstly working on the primary campaign for Hillary Clinton and then on the general election for Barack Obama.

Richard has previously worked as a Research Assistant to Yvette Cooper MP and for the Cabinet Office and he blogs regularly on sites such as LabourList, Next Left and his own blog, Politicana.