Lord lipsey biography
Lord lipsey biography
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David Lipsey
Lord David Lawrence Lipsey is a political and economic journalist who initally started his career as a researcher for the GMWU. He served in several positions for the Labour Party in the 1970s but with the defeat of Labour in 1979 Lipsey began his career in journalism.
After reaching the position of political editor for The Economist, he turned to politics when he served on the Jenkin's Commission between 1997 and 1998. The commission was tasked with identifying the most appropriate voting system for elections in the House of Commons, as an alternative to the first past the post system[1].
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He was raised to the peerage as Baron Lipsey of Tooting Bec in the London Borough of Wandsworth in 1999 [2].
In 2001, the Social Market Foundation replaced its Tory-supporting chairman, Lord Skidelsky, with leading Labour peer Lord David Lipsey.
Lipsey is the chairman of Make My Vote Count, and the commissioner of the Greyhound Racing Association. He is a controversial figu