Christopher Fox, Baron Fox
Christopher Francis Fox (Chris Fox) (born 27 September 1957) is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was made life peer as Baron Fox, of Leominster in the County of Herefordshire, on 11 September 2014.[1]
The Lord Fox | |
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Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats | |
In office 2010–2011 | |
Preceded by | Chris Rennard |
Succeeded by | Tim Gordon |
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 11 September 2014 Life Peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Surrey, UK | 27 September 1957
Political party | Liberal Democrats |
Children | 1 |
Alma mater | Imperial College London |
He graduated with a BSc in chemistry from Imperial College London.[2] Fox spent a year as president of the Imperial College Students' Union.[3]
As of June 2017 he was appointed Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the House of Lords. From June 2015 he was a member of the Lords Science and Technology Committee, in July 2019 changing to be a member of the Economic Affairs Committee.[4][5]
In May 2020 The Daily Telegraph reported that Fox had furloughed himself under the government financed COVID support scheme in his single employee company, Vulpes Advisory, which had a £100,000 cash balance, as well as claiming his £162 daily allowance for Lords Zoom video meetings attendance. The newspaper critically characterised this as a "double dip into the taxpayers' pocket", and some MPs said this was "milking the taxpayer".[6] Fox apologised for his "error in judgment" and promised to repay the furlough money.[7]
References
- "No. 60989". The London Gazette. 15 September 2014. p. 17978.
- ‘FOX’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
- "Chris Fox". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- "Lord Fox - Parliamentary career". House of Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- "Lord Fox". UK Parliament. June 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
- Mikhailova, Anna (20 May 2020). "Exclusive: peer 'milking' taxpayer by furloughing himself and claiming Lords allowance". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- Proctor, Kate (21 May 2020). "Lib Dem peer says sorry for claiming furlough and Lords allowance". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
External links
- Lord Fox – UK Parliament
Party political offices | ||
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Preceded by Wynn Normington Hugh-Jones Anthony Jacobs |
Treasurer of the Liberal Party 1986 – 1988 With: Tim Razzall |
Succeeded by Tim Razzall (Treasurer of the SLD) |
Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom | ||
Preceded by The Lord Farmer |
Gentlemen Baron Fox |
Followed by The Lord Suri |