Philippa Stroud, Baroness Stroud

The Right Honourable
The Baroness Stroud
Baroness Stroud, 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 October 2015
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born (1965-04-02) 2 April 1965 (age 59)
Political partyConservative
EducationSt Catherine's School, Bramley
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
OccupationThink tanker

Philippa Claire Stroud, Baroness Stroud (born 2 April 1965)[1] is a Conservative Party Peer in the House of Lords and leader of several conservative think tanks.[2]

She is co-founder and, since November 2023, the chief executive officer of Alliance for Responsible Citizenship.[3][4] Stroud has held similar roles at the Legatum Institute, Centre for Social Justice and Social Metrics Commission.[5][6][7] She is a member of the Conservative Party and in 2009 The Daily Telegraph named her as the 82nd most influential right-winger, ahead of former Conservative leader Michael Howard.[8] By 2023, journalist Eleanor Mills described her as "the most powerful Right-winger you've never heard of."[9]

Stroud was made a life peer on 1 October 2015 taking the title Baroness Stroud, of Fulham in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.[10]

In January 2024, she became the chairman of the Low Pay Commission. [11]

  1. ^ "Philippa Stroud". api.parliament.uk/. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
  2. ^ "Tory peer who helped to set up universal credit calls for urgent increase in benefits". The Independent. 21 May 2022. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  3. ^ Bourke, Jordan Baker, Latika (29 October 2023). "Olympics of centre-right thought? Heavyweights to debate future of conservatism in the age of Trump". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 November 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "This global right-wing movement wants to save the world. It just needs a plan". POLITICO. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Legatum: the think-tank at intellectual heart of 'hard' Brexit". www.ft.com. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  6. ^ Stroud, Philippa. "Dying to belong". www.prospectmagazine.co.uk. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  7. ^ Butler, Patrick (5 July 2022). "Tory peer says government has made a 'political football' out of poverty". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 15 February 2024.
  8. ^ Dale, Iain; Brian Brivati (4 October 2009). "Top 100 most influential Right-wingers: 100-51". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 7 October 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
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  10. ^ "Crown Office - Notice 2410213". London Gazette. 5 October 2015.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).