Claire Fox

The Right Honourable The Baroness Fox of Buckley
Official portrait, 2020
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 8 October 2020 Life Peerage
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 (1960-06-05) 5 June 1960 (age 64) Barton-upon-Irwell, Lancashire, England
Political 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. She is the director and founder of the think tank the Academy of Ideas (formerly Institute of Ideas).

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 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,^[1] despite her past opposition to the existence of the House of Lords.^[2]