Christopher Francis Fox (Chris Fox) (born 27 September 1957) is a British

Liberal Democrat Several political party, political parties from around the world have been called the Liberal Democratic Party or Liberal Democrats. These parties usually follow a liberal democracy, liberal democratic ideology. Active parties Former parties ...

politician. He was made

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as Baron Fox, of

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in the County of

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, on 11 September 2014. He graduated with a BSc in

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

from

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

. Fox spent a year as president of the Imperial College Students' Union. As of June 2017 he was appointed Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy in the

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. From June 2015 he was a member of the Lords

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, in July 2019 changing to be a member of the Economic Affairs Committee. In May 2020 ''

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'' reported that Fox had furloughed himself under the government financed COVID support scheme in his single employee company, Vulpes Advisory, which had a £100,000 cash balance, as well as claiming his £162 daily allowance for Lords Zoom video meetings attendance. The newspaper critically characterised this as a "double dip into the taxpayers' pocket", and some MPs said this was "milking the taxpayer". Fox apologised for his "error in judgment" and promised to repay the furlough money.

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Lord Fox
– UK Parliament 1957 births Living people Alumni of Imperial College London Liberal Democrats (UK) life peers People from Haslemere Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{life-peer-stub