Editing Tim Rice (section)

===Political views===
Previously a supporter of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], in 2007 Rice stated that the party were no longer interested in him and that his relationship with them had "irrevocably changed."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/feb/15/conservatives.uk|title=Tim Rice: Tories no longer love me|work=The Guardian|date=15 February 2007|access-date=28 September 2014}}</ref> Rice and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], both supporters of [[Margaret Thatcher]], attended her funeral in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-clarkson-shirley-bassey-and-tony-blair-but-no-mikhail-gorbachev-margaret-thatchers-funeral-guest-list-announced-8568236.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220507/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-clarkson-shirley-bassey-and-tony-blair-but-no-mikhail-gorbachev-margaret-thatchers-funeral-guest-list-announced-8568236.html |archive-date=7 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Jeremy Clarkson, Shirley Bassey and Tony Blair, but no Mikhail Gorbachev: Margaret Thatcher's funeral guest list announced |work=The Independent |date=11 April 2013 |access-date=27 June 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Rice raised funds for the [[No Campaign (UK)|Euro No]] campaign in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/909043.stm|title=Anti-euro campaign launched|work=BBC News|date=4 September 2000|access-date=17 February 2020}}</ref> In 2014, he donated £7,500 to the [[UK Independence Party]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ukip/10656628/Dont-cry-for-me-David-Cameron-Sir-Tim-Rice-emerges-as-Ukip-donor.html|date=23 February 2014 | title= Sir Tim Rice emerges as Ukip donor |work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> In May 2016, he told ''[[The Spectator]]'' that he would vote for [[Brexit]] in the following month's [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|referendum on the issue]], saying: "It would be good to spend one's final years as part of a truly independent nation once more." He said he had voted to remain in the [[European Economic Community]] in 1975 "from a standpoint of ignorance".<ref>{{cite web | url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-spectator-poll-are-you-in-or-out-bob-geldof-tim-rice-joey-essex-have-their-say | title= The Spectator poll: Are You In or Out? Bob Geldof, Tim Rice & Joey Essex have their say | work=The Spectator | date=27 May 2016 | access-date=8 March 2021}}</ref>