Lawrie Lee Hooper is a Welsh-born Manx politician who is the leader of

Liberal Vannin Party The Liberal Vannin Party (LVP; gv, Partee Libraalagh Vannin) is a political party in the Isle of Man. It was founded in 2006 by Peter Karran, then an Independent MHK for Onchan. Karran had been, until 2004, a member of the Manx Labour Party. ...

and current Minister for the Department of Enterprise. He represented

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in the

House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

from 2016.

Early life

Hooper was born in Cardiff, Wales. He studied at Ramsey Grammar School and Keele University. He trained and qualified as a Chartered Accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers on the Isle of Man with a focus on Audit. He then spent four years working as a Manager at Crowe Morgan.

Political career

Hooper stood unsuccessfully for the House of Keys as an independent candidate in 2011. He served as a Ramsey Town Commissioner between April 2012 and September 2016, including as chairman for the 2016/17 term until his election to the House of Keys in 2016 as a Liberal Vannin candidate. Hooper became leader of the Liberal Vannin Party in August 2020.

Election results

2011

2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hooper, Lawrie Living people Liberal Vannin Party politicians Members of the House of Keys 2016–2021 Year of birth missing (living people)