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 Right Honourable

The Lord Fox
Chief Executive of the
Liberal Democrats
In office
2010–2011
Preceded by Chris Rennard
Succeeded byTim Gordon
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
11 September 2014
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1957-09-27) 27 September 1957
Surrey, UK
Political partyLiberal Democrats
Children1
Alma materImperial 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
  1. "No. 60989". The London Gazette. 15 September 2014. p. 17978.
  2. ‘FOX’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017
  3. "Chris Fox". Liberal Democrats. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
  4. "Lord Fox - Parliamentary career". House of Lords. UK Parliament. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  5. "Lord Fox". UK Parliament. June 2017. Archived from the original on 1 July 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  6. Mikhailova, Anna (20 May 2020). "Exclusive: peer 'milking' taxpayer by furloughing himself and claiming Lords allowance". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  7. Proctor, Kate (21 May 2020). "Lib Dem peer says sorry for claiming furlough and Lords allowance". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
Party political offices
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)


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