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Daniel Hannan is a peer in the House of Lords and director general of the Institute of Economic Affairs, a free-market think tank funded by oil companies including Shell, BP and ExxonMobil, taking up the role in June 2026. He was previously Conservative MEP for South East England from 1999 to 2020 and one of the founders of the Vote Leave campaign. He also founded the Institute for Free Trade in 2017 and served as international secretary of the Conservative Party under four successive leaders before relinquishing the Conservative whip on taking up his IEA role.

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Conservative Party former Hannan was a Conservative member of the House of Lords from 2021 to May 2026. He was also a Conservative Party MEP from 1999 to 2020. [src][src]

Great British PAC advisory board Hannan sits on the advisory board of GB PAC. He also signed a GB PAC open letter opposing the government's policy on Chagos [src][src]

The Telegraph Hannan is a Telegraph columnist [src]

The Centre for Policy Studies Hannan is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Studies [src]

Institute of Economic Affairs Hannan has been the Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs since April 2026 [src]

Vote Leave former Hannan was co-founder of Vote Leave [src]

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