The Rt Hon The Lord (Peter) Lilley, Senior Fellow

After working on development projects in developing countries, Lord Lilley joined a leading City firm advising on investment in energy, becoming a Partner. Elected to Parliament in 1983, he became a Treasury Minister in 1987, served in the Cabinets of Mrs Thatcher and John Major as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, then for Social Security. In opposition he was Shadow Chancellor, then Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party until 2000. He chaired the Committee of Both Houses on Financial Services Legislation after the banking crisis and served on the Select Committees for Brexit and Energy & Climate Change. He stood down as an MP in 2017, was made a Peer in 2018, where he served on the Environment and Climate Change Committee and currently the Financial Services Regulation Committee.

Lord Lilley’s subjects of preference are: Thatcher and Thatcherism; Economics of Climate Change; Does Mass Migration Make Us Better/Worse Off?; Benefits and Costs of Brexit; Negotiating Trade Deals; Energy Policy