Claire Fox

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-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. Fox was a spokesperson on BBC Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze and appeared on BBC One's political discussion debate programme, Question Time.