Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard
Occupation	Functionary
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1960(1960-07-08)
Age	64
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Liverpool
Horoscope	Cancer

Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard Biography

Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard is one of the most popular and richest Functionary who was born on July 8, 1960 in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Rennard was born in the year 1960. He was the third of three sons born to Cecil Rennard (1888-1963) and Jean Winfred Watson (1923-1976/77). He is the older step brother from his father’s first marriage. the father of two step-children from that marriage.

In 1989, Rennard was appointed director of Campaigns and Elections for the Liberal Democrats. He got married to Ann McTegart (whom he had been with as the two were Liberal Party agents in Merseyside in the 1980s) and was named as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1989’s New Year Honours.

Rennard was created a life peer on 21 July 1999 as Baron Rennard, of Wavertree in the County of Merseyside, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 27 July 1999. He is the treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Diabetes and a vice chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health.

In the House of Lords, Rennard has mostly spoken on political and constitutional reform issues. He led for the Liberal Democrats in debate on what became the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000, that set the framework for rules such as those governing party finance. He spoke in favour of replacing large donor funding of parties, with limited state funding. He has campaigned against abuses of the postal vote system and helped to bring about some reforms to it. He has spoken out strongly for and voted for reform of the House of Lords at every possible stage. In the 2010–2015 Parliament he was responsible for changing proposals to move electoral registration to an entirely voluntary system that some say would have greatly favoured the Conservatives. He was also responsible in the House of Lords for the cross-party amendment that blocked the proposed review of parliamentary boundaries, thought by some to favour the Conservatives by up to 30 seats at the next general election. He also speaks in the Lords on other issues, including some associated with public health including diabetes and smoking.

In 1984, he was one of their National Area Agents, based in Leicester where the party was able to win its first seats in the city for more than 20 years. He was part of several of the Liberal/Alliance by-election teams that included teams in West Derbyshire in 1986 and Greenwich in 1987. He was on the permanent committee of ALC (Association of Liberal Councillors) and also wrote a few publication for the party on election campaigning and party organization.

Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard Net Worth

Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard is one of the richest Functionary from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christopher John Rennard, Baron Rennard MBE (born on July 8, 1960) is a British life peer of the House of Lords, appointed to the Liberal Democrats’ benches in 1999. The director was with the department of Campaigns & Elections for the Liberal Democrats from 1989 until 2003, and the Chief Executive of the Liberal Democrats from 2003 until the year 2009.

Rennard studied at The Liverpool Blue Coat School and obtained the degree of BA (Hons) Social Studies degree in 1982 at the University of Liverpool. In his teens, Rennard was an active participant in the Liberal Party. He started his political career at the time of Liverpool in the latter part of the 1970s when he became the chairperson of his own group, the Liverpool University Liberals. He credits the activists of local politics from Liverpool such as Cyril Carr, Trevor Jones and David Alton, as having significant influence on his. Rennard was the Deputy chair of the Liverpool Liberal Party and organised several of the party’s election campaigns during the 1980s during a period that it was the Liberal Party controlled the City Council. The first successful by- election campaign in Parliament which he participated in was Liverpool Edge Hill by-election in March 1979. At that time, the Liberal Party’s candidate is David Alton. Rennard was Alton’s agent at the time it was his turn to contest the newly-created Liverpool Mossley Hill constituency in 1983 (after the boundary was changed) and helped secure an impressive result in an election that resulted in the landslide Conservative victory in the national election.

In the 1997 general election he oversaw the party’s target-seat campaign, which resulted in the Liberal Democrats nearly doubling its number of MPs from 26 to 46. In 2001 and 2005, with Tim Razzall (Baron Razzall) as Campaign Chair and Charles Kennedy as Leader, he also directed the Liberal Democrats’ general-election campaigns, which further increased the number of Lib Dem MPs respectively to 52 and 62, the largest total of Liberal or Liberal Democrat MPs since 1923.

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In May 2009 Rennard was criticised for claiming a House of Lords member’s allowance of £41,678, having designated a flat in Eastbourne as his main residence and his central London house as his second home. A subsequent complaint made by the Sunlight Centre for Open Politics was investigated by the Clerk of the Parliaments Michael Pownall, who did not uphold it, “In view of the assurances by Lord Rennard about the change in his circumstances and the time he spends in Eastbourne, and in the absence of any definition of main address in the current guidance to the House of Lords’ Members Expenses Scheme”.

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Functionary. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Chris Rennard, Baron Rennard celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

Former party leader Charles Kennedy has described Rennard as “a quite extraordinary figure in British politics”, while his predecessor Paddy Ashdown praised Rennard as “a formidable and widely-respected practitioner of political campaigning across all parties”. Iain Dale said in an interview in Total Politics (June 2011) that Rennard “is probably the most formidable and feared political campaigner of the last 20 years.”