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Friday, September 18, 2020

Claire Fox's life peerage gazetted ...

 _. The life peerage awarded recently to Claire Fox has been gazetted in the name, style and title of Baroness Fox of Buckley, of Buckley in the County of Flintshire, 14 September, 2020.

Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960) is a British writer and politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North West England constituency from 2019 to 2020. She is the director and founder of the Institute of Ideas think tank.

Raised in Flintshire, Wales, Fox attended St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School. After graduating from the University of Warwick and gaining a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education, she worked as a mental health social worker and an English Language and Literature lecturer at Thurrock Technical College and West Herts College.

A lifelong Eurosceptic, she was previously a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party but later began identifying as a libertarian. She became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and successfully ran on its behalf in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was nominated for a peerage in July 2020 despite past opposition to the authority of the House of Lords.

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