Claire Fox is the director and founder of the think tank Institute of Ideas.
16 Facts About Claire Fox
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Claire Fox became a registered supporter of the Brexit Party shortly after its formation and was elected as an MEP in the 2019 European Parliament election.
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Claire Fox was nominated for a peerage by the Boris Johnson-led Conservative government in 2020, despite her past opposition to the existence of the House of Lords.
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Claire Fox later gained a Professional Graduate Certificate in Education.
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Claire Fox was later an English Language and Literature lecturer at Thurrock Technical College from 1987 to 1990 and at West Herts College from 1992 to 1999.
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Claire Fox joined the Revolutionary Communist Party as a student at the University of Warwick.
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In 2018, Claire Fox refused to apologise for suggesting that evidence of the genocide was faked.
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Claire Fox stayed with her ex-RCP members when the group transformed itself in the early 2000s into a network around the web magazine Spiked Online and the Institute of Ideas, both based in the former RCP offices and promoting libertarianism.
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Claire Fox was criticised in The Guardian for rejecting multiculturalism as divisive and for her libertarian beliefs in the desirability of minimal governmental control and free speech in all contexts.
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Claire Fox was accused in 2005 of supporting "Gary Glitter's right to download child porn".
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Claire Fox was in the first position in the list for the Brexit Party in the North West England constituency at the 2019 European Parliament election.
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Claire Fox's selection was criticised by the father of murdered schoolboy Tim Parry for her past support for the Provisional Irish Republican Army and for the RCP's defence of the 1993 IRA Warrington bombings, which had killed his son within the North West England constituency.
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Claire Fox previously claimed to be against the existence of the House of Lords, and congratulated Liberal Democrats for not taking up peerages in a 2015 tweet.
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Claire Fox was created The Baroness Fox of Buckley on 14 September and was introduced to the Lords on 8 October 2020.
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On 9 November 2020, speaking in the Lords in favour of the Internal Market Bill, Claire Fox described international law as "a supranational instrument for undermining national sovereignty" and said that, rather than breaking the law, the UK government were making the law.
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Claire Fox likened it to cancel culture, calling it a disaster for the arts, dangerous for free speech and a lesson to those who don't see a threat in identity politics.