Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, PC (born 23 June 1937), is a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to February 1974.[1][2] Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 14 May 1997 to 8 June 2010,[3] and later Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014. The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election,[4] he was created a life peer on 22 June 2018,[5] sitting in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.