Chris Rennard
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The Right Honourable The Lord Rennard MBE |
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| Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats |
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In office 2003–2009 |
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| Preceded by |
Andrew Ellis (1988 – 1989) |
| Succeeded by |
Chris Fox |
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| Born |
Christopher John Rennard 8 July 1960 Liverpool, England |
| Political party |
Liberal Democrat Independent (January 2014-August 2014) |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
Andrew Ellis (1988 – 1989)
Graham Elson (1989 – 1997)
Elizabeth Pamplin (1998 – 1999)
Chris Fox
(2010 - 2011)
Christopher John Rennard, Baron Rennard, MBE (born 8 July 1960) is a British life peer in the House of Lords, appointed to the Liberal Democrats' benches in 1999. He was Director of Campaigns & Elections for the Liberal Democrats from 1989 to 2003, and Chief Executive of the party from 2003 to 2009.
Rennard was educated at the Liverpool Blue Coat School and gained a BA (Hons) Social Studies in 1982 from the University of Liverpool. From his early teens he was an active member of the Liberal Party. He began his political activism in Liverpool in the late 1970s, where he chaired the Liverpool University Liberals. He cites the early pioneers of community politics in Liverpool, including Cyril Carr, Trevor Jones and David Alton, as having had a major influence on him. Rennard was Deputy Chair of the Liverpool Liberal Party and organised many of the party's election campaigns in the 1980s, at a time when the Liberal Party controlled the City Council. The first successful parliamentary by-election campaign he worked on was the Liverpool Edge Hill by-election in March 1979, at which the party's candidate was David Alton. Rennard was Alton's agent when he successfully contested the newly created Liverpool Mossley Hill constituency in 1983 (after boundary changes) and helped to secure an excellent result there in a general election that saw a landslide Conservative victory nationally.
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