Daniel Hannan

The Lord Hannan of Kingsclere
Dan Hannan in 2012
Adviser to the UK Board of Trade
Assumed office
4 September 2020
Prime MinisterBoris Johnson
Liz Truss
Rishi Sunak
PresidentLiz Truss
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Kemi Badenoch
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
1 February 2021
Life peerage
Member of the European Parliament
for South East England
In office
14 July 1999 – 31 January 2020
Preceded byConstituency established
Succeeded byConstituency abolished
Personal details
Born (1971-09-01) 1 September 1971 (age 53)
Lima, Peru
NationalityBritish
Political partyConservative
Spouse
Sara Maynard
(m. 2000)
[1]
Children3[1][2]
Alma materOriel College, Oxford
ProfessionWriter, journalist, politician
Awards Life peer
Websitehannan.co.uk

Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere (born 1 September 1971) is a British writer, journalist and politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for South East England from 1999 to 2020. He is currently a sitting member of the House of Lords where he takes the Conservative whip,[3] and has since 2020 served as an adviser to the Board of Trade. He is the founding president of the Initiative for Free Trade.

Hannan was the first secretary-general of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE), serving from 2009 to 2018. He was one of the founders of Vote Leave, one of the organisations that campaigned to leave the EU in 2016, and served on its board throughout the referendum. He played a prominent role in the referendum campaign, participating in a number of public debates. He stood down from the European Parliament at the United Kingdom's exit from the EU in 2020.

Lord Hannan of Kingsclere has written columns for The Sunday Telegraph, the International Business Times, ConservativeHome, and the Washington Examiner, as well as occasional columns in the Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sun, The Spectator, and The Wall Street Journal. He is editor-in-chief of The Conservative, a quarterly journal of centre-right political thought.[4] He has published several books.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Daniel Hannan @". sevenoaksconservatives.org. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2012.
  2. ^ "twitter.com/DanielJHannan". Daniel Hannanprofile. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Parliamentary career". parliament.uk. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  4. ^ "Daniel Hannan". danielhannan.info. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Daniel Hannan". The Guardian.