Lord Stewart Jackson
Conservative peer, House of Lords

Lord (Stewart) Jackson of Peterborough was born 1965 and educated at the London Nautical School, London SE1 and Chatham House Grammar School, Ramsgate, Kent; Royal Holloway College, University of London (BA Hons Economics and Public Administration) and University of West London (MA Human Resource Management). Stewart was a banker at Lloyds Bank and Lloyds TSB Group and HR and a business services manager at AZTEC (training and enterprise council for SW London). He was also a business link for London between 1989-2005.

Stewart was a Conservative member for the London Borough of Ealing between 1990-98, and a spokesman on Housing and Planning between 1994-98. He was the MP for Peterborough between 2005-17 and the opposition Whip between 2007-8. Stewart was also the frontbench spokesman and shadow minister for regeneration and fire service between 2008-10. He was the PPS to the secretary of state for Northern Ireland between 2010-11; a member of the public accounts committee between 2012-15; treasurer in 1922 and executive between 2015-16. Stewart is the founder of Conservative Voice and a member of the European Research Group and Parliamentary Vote Leave.

Stewart was also the adjunct associate professor of British politics at the American University at Richmond 2010-17. He was PPS to the secretary of state for exiting the EU and chief of staff and special advisor to the secretary of state between 2016-18. He was the strategic counsel for Crosby Textor Fulbrook Partners between 2018-20 and remains the founder and director of UK Political Insight. He is the HS2 residents’ commissioner since 2022, and the British Transport Police Authority.

Stewart was ennobled as Baron Jackson of Peterborough in the county of Cambridgeshire in October 2022.

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