Alan Haselhurst

Alan Gordon Barraclough Haselhurst, Baron Haselhurst, PC (23 June 1937 – 1 June 2026) was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden from 1977 to 2017, having previously represented Middleton and Prestwich from 1970 to 1974. Haselhurst was Chairman of Ways and Means from 1997 to 2010, and later chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association between 2011 and 2014.

The oldest Conservative MP to stand down at the 2017 general election, he was created a life peer in 2018, taking his seat in the House of Lords as Baron Haselhurst.