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Martin Steven Lewis
CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(born 9 May 1972) is an English financial journalist and broadcaster. Lewis founded the website
MoneySavingExpert.com MoneySavingExpert.com is a British consumer finance information and discussion website, founded by financial journalist Martin Lewis in February 2003. The website's focus is to provide people with information on saving money in the form of dea ...
. He sold the website in 2012 to the
Moneysupermarket.com Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC is a British price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services. The website enables consumers to compare prices on a range of products, including energy, car insurance, home insurance, tr ...
group for up to £87 million.


Early life and education

Lewis was born at
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in Manchester in 1972. His family lived in the Manchester suburb of
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. While still a child he moved with his family to the village of
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, near
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in rural
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, where his father was appointed headmaster of Delamere Forest School, a Jewish school for students with special educational needs. His mother Susan Lewis, died following a horse riding accident, involving a collision with a lorry, when he was aged 11. In later life he became a patron of the children's bereavement charity Grief Encounter and an advocate for
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. Lewis attended The King's School, an
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in
Chester Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
. Lewis has stated that he was subjected to
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as a school boy in Chester, remarking that as one of only two Jewish boys in his year he was given the
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"Jew" by other pupils. He went on to read Government and Law at the
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and in 1997 became a postgraduate student in
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at
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's Centre for Journalism Studies. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in
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from the
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.


Career


Early career

After graduating, Lewis was the general secretary of the
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. He then went to work in the
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for the
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, a financial communications consultancy.


TV and radio

After graduating in journalism at
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, Lewis became a producer for the
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Business Unit working on the
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business programmes and as an editor of
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's ''
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'' programme business slot. Lewis then moved to satellite channel ''Simply Money'', fronted by
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, where he cultivated his "Money Saving Expert" persona. From the outset, the channel suffered poor viewing figures and its main backer, Invest TV Resources, withdrew their support in March 2001. Almost all of its 51 staff, including Lewis, lost their jobs. After the collapse of ''Simply Money'', Lewis contributed to a "Deal of the Week" column in the ''
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''. Lewis also presented "Money Saving Expert" slots on Channel 5's daytime show, '' Open House with Gloria Hunniford''. Lewis returned to the BBC to work as a business and personal finance reporter for the corporation's BBC One ''Breakfast News''. In 2005, Lewis presented a daytime television series on
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called ''Make Me Rich'' and in 2008 a
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programme on
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called ''
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''. Lewis has also presented money special editions for ITV's ''
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'' and has featured as a "Money Saving Expert" on several other magazine programmes including '' Good Morning Britain'' and ''
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''. Lewis currently appears on ITV's '' This Morning'' and as an occasional guest on other news and magazine programmes. In 2012, he began co-presenting '' The Martin Lewis Money Show'', initially with
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, and more recently with
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. He also appeared weekly on the ''Emma Barnett Show'' on BBC's Radio Five Live. In June 2020 he was a guest on
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's ''
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''. In December 2022, Martin Lewis appeared with
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on their Christmas charity single, "Food Aid", a
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of Band Aid's 1984 charity single
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.


Money Saving Expert

In October 2002 Martin appeared in the Meridian Trust's (now Public Service Broadcasting Trust) live Spotlight Programme "Save yourself a fortune" on
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as their Money Saving Expert for the first time. The programme subsequently won the
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Educational Award – 2002 Campaigns and Seasons. Lewis created and runs the website MoneySavingExpert.com (MSE), which was originally designed for a cost of just £100 in February 2003. In September 2012 he sold the website to the
Moneysupermarket.com Moneysupermarket.com Group PLC is a British price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services. The website enables consumers to compare prices on a range of products, including energy, car insurance, home insurance, tr ...
group for up to £87m but remained editor-in-chief. The deal saw Lewis receive £35m cash up front in addition to 22.1m shares in Moneysupermarket.com and £27m in future payments. He simultaneously announced his intention to give £10m to charity, of which £1m would go to
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. In July 2015 Lewis sold just over half his shareholding in Moneysupermarket.com, obtained in the sale of Money Saving Expert, for £25.2 million. On the back of this he gave a further £1m to Citizens Advice and £500,000 each to
The Trussell Trust The Trussell Trust is an NGO and charity that works to end the need for food banks in the United Kingdom. It supports a network of over 1,200 food bank centres to provide emergency food and compassionate, practical support to people in crisis, wh ...
and the Personal Finance Education Group to fund financial triage and education work. In 2018 Lewis started legal action against
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for defamation over fake adverts using his face and name, mostly promoting ‘bitcoin’ and ‘investing’. He later dropped the action after Facebook agreed to fund an anti-scam project.


Columnist

Lewis has a fortnightly column in ''
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'' and a regional syndicated column in ''
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'', the ''
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'' and the ''
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'' amongst others. He has been a columnist for ''
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'', ''
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'', ''
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'' and the ''
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''. All his columns are on the theme of saving money.


Controversy


Unauthorised business promotion

In 2010 Martin Lewis was a presenter on ''
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'', a weekday morning chat show. The programme includes a regular feature called ‘Deals of the Week’.
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investigated a complaint that the programme promoted MoneySavingExpert.com, a website owned and run by Lewis as a commercial enterprise. Lewis denied any wrongdoing and continues to do so. However the
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report concluded: "By inviting viewers to obtain further information and vouchers on the GMTV website, and then re-directing them to Martin Lewis' commercial website to obtain that information, the programme was effectively promoting his business. As a result of this promotion, the programme was in breach of Rule 10.3 of the Code."


Campaigns


Bank charges

In late 2005, campaigns against what were claimed to be unfair
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s gained momentum and a few small websites started to highlight the issue. Lewis was at the forefront of the media campaign to reclaim what he states are unfair and unlawful fees charged by UK banks. He presented the first mainstream television programme on how to reclaim bank fees (
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's ''Tonight'') and in November 2006 published a step-by-step guide, including template letters as well as regularly appearing across the media to champion the issue. His campaign suffered a major setback in November 2009 when the
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ruled that the charges imposed by banks formed part of their fees for current account services and could not be assessed for fairness under the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations. Lewis, along with other consumer groups, hired Ray Cox QC (a barrister with previous experience of banking cases) to look into new legal arguments for account holders wishing to reclaim charges, which might possibly use regulation 5 of the Unfair Terms Act as suggested by the Supreme Court Judgement. This attempt suffered a further setback when, on 22 December 2009, the
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(OFT) issued a statement saying that it had decided against taking forward such an investigation because it "would have a very limited scope and low prospects of success". Lewis published updated template letters allowing individuals to attempt to recover bank charges on financial hardship grounds on 2 February 2010, and information regarding claims on legal grounds made via courts was published on 24 February 2010.


Energy bills

In summer 2008, Lewis appeared on several television and radio programmes exhorting consumers to "cap your energy bills now", based on the prediction that there would be a further round of price increases at the end of 2008. "Capping prices" involved consumers locking themselves into rates higher than prevailing un-capped rates. After that point British Gas announced an increase of 30% on its un-capped prices, though in January 2009 UK energy companies' un-capped prices were reduced by up to 10%. Information published by
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, a price comparison site whose business motivation is to encourage frequent switching between energy suppliers, after the price cuts, in February 2009, suggested that "Those who were savvy enough to sign up to a competitive fixed-price plan last summer, before some increases in wholesale energy were passed on, are sitting pretty as prices would need to drop by 16% on average before it would be worth moving" but failed to be clear about which specific capped deals it was basing this assertion on, and when it was sensible to have committed to a capped rate deal.


Student finance

In 2011, Lewis launched the Independent Taskforce on Student Finance Information with former National Union of Students president
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and backed by the
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, to provide information to potential students about the changes to
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and
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resulting from the
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. After subtle changes to student loan repayments were announced in the
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of 2015, Lewis appealed directly to the Prime Minister and engaged lawyers to investigate. He said that freezing the repayment threshold would represent a retroactive hike in student loan costs that could "destroy any trust" that students have in the student finance and political systems.


Mental health and debt

In 2016, Lewis launched and provided funding for the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, a
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directed by former Liberal Democrat adviser Polly Mackenzie to study the link between
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issues and debt.


Others

Lewis' other large-scale campaigns, with ensuing television programmes, include refunds for missold
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. Between January 2011 and December 2019 UK banks paid £38.3 billion in compensation for millions of fraudulently sold policies.


Honours and recognition

Lewis became a Governor of the
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in 2008. He was appointed
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(OBE) in the
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for services to consumer rights and to charitable services through the MSE Charity Fund and promoted to
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(CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting and consumer rights. Lewis was named the Best Personal Finance Broadcast Journalist in 2020 by ADVFN. Lewis requested to be created a crossbench peer in the House of Lords but was rejected by the
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, which encouraged him to apply again in the future. He believes he was turned down due to work and family obligations leaving him with limited time for parliamentary work but a spokesperson for the appointments commission denied the claimed reasons, stating that some very good candidates were rejected. In 2022, Martin Lewis won the
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for Best TV Expert.


Personal life

Lewis has a sister. His father was Head Master of a Special Educational Needs School in Chester. His mother was killed following a horse riding accident on 7 May 1984. Lewis married ''
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'' weather presenter
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on 31 May 2009. They have one daughter. Lewis is
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and practises the Jewish faith. As of 2021 ''The Sunday Times Rich List'' estimates his net worth at £123 million.


Bibliography

* (2005) ''The Money Diet: The Ultimate Guide to Shedding Pounds Off Your Bills and Saving Money on Everything!'',
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* (ed 2006) ''Thrifty Ways for Modern Days'', Vermilion * (2008) ''The Three Most Important Lessons You've Never Been Taught: MoneySavingExpert.Com'', Vermilion


References


External links

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Articles

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