Claire Fox
The Baroness Fox of Buckley | |
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Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 14 September 2020 | |
| Member of the European Parliament for North West England | |
| In office 2 July 2019 – 31 January 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Paul Nuttall |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Claire Regina Fox 5 June 1960 Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire, England |
| Party | Independent (1997–2019; 2020–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Brexit (2019–2020) Revolutionary Communist (before 1997) |
| Relations | Fiona Fox (sister) |
| Alma mater | University of Warwick University of Greenwich |
| Occupation | Writer and broadcaster |
| Known for | Director and founder of Institute of Ideas |
Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley (born 5 June 1960), is a British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. A right-wing libertarian, she is the director and founder of think tank the Academy of Ideas, formerly known as the Institute of Ideas.
A lifelong Eurosceptic, she was previously a member of the Trotskyist British Revolutionary Communist Party but later began identifying as a libertarian. She became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and was elected as an MEP in the 2019 European Parliament election. She was nominated for a peerage by the Boris Johnson-led Conservative government in 2020, despite her past opposition to the existence of the House of Lords.