Matthew Elliott, Baron Elliott of Mickle Fell
British political strategist (born 1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Matthew Jim Elliott, Baron Elliott of Mickle Fell, FRSA (born 12 February 1978) is a British political strategist and lobbyist who has served as the chief executive of a number of organisations and been involved in various referendum campaigns, including Vote Leave.
The Lord Elliott of Mickle Fell | |
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Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
Assumed office 6 February 2024 Life peerage | |
Personal details | |
Born | Matthew Jim Elliott (1978-02-12) 12 February 1978 (age 46) Leeds, England |
Political party | Conservative |
Spouses | Florence Heath
(m. 2005; div. 2012)Sarah Smith (m. 2014) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | London School of Economics |
Occupation | Political strategist |
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Elliott was the founder and has served as chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance in 2004, Big Brother Watch and Business for Britain.
He has also worked as a political strategist, acting as campaign director for the successful NOtoAV campaign in the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum. In 2015, Elliott became the chief executive of Vote Leave, the official organisation advocating for a 'leave' vote in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum. He was described as "...one of the most successful political campaigners in Westminster today."[2] In 2018, The Guardian described him as a central figure in "a network of opaquely funded organisations", mostly based at 55 Tufton Street, that "centre around... the TaxPayers’ Alliance – a pressure group that he founded – and Brexit Central, an anti-EU website of which [he was then] editor-in-chief".[3]