Christopher Haskins, Baron Haskins

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Christopher Robin Haskins, Baron Haskins (born May 30, 1937 in Dublin , Ireland ) is a British businessman and former member of the Labor Party .

Life

He is the son of a farmer. He studied at St Columba's College (Dublin) and Trinity College (Dublin) , where he was a radical student and a member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament . He graduated in Modern History and was considering becoming a journalist. Haskins was briefly employed by De La Rue but was fired. He then married his childhood sweetheart.

Her father Alec Horsley consented to the marriage on condition that he join the family business, the Yorkshire-based Northern Dairies . After working on a dairy farm in Ireland, he joined the company in 1962. Haskins saw the need for high-quality food products and converted the company into Northern Foods , whose brands include ski yoghurt and Bowyers sausages , and Marks and Spencer became the largest customer for convenience food products. Haskins became director in 1967, deputy director in 1974, and served on the board from 1980 to 2002.

In 1998 he was a Baron Haskins , of Skidby, in the County of the East Riding of Yorkshire for Life Peer collected and moved to the Labor Party in the House of Lords . In 2001, on behalf of Prime Minister Tony Blair , he managed the containment of the foot-and-mouth disease that was raging in Britain at the time. In August 2005 it was announced that he had donated £ 2,500 to the election campaign of Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander . He was then expelled from the party. He's now a crossbencher in the house.

He was chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and a member of the New Deal Task Force . He is pro-European and a leading member of the Britain in Europe campaign, is the House of Lords European Sub-Committee and Chairman of the European Movement. He is a member of Yorkshire Forward and serves on the board of directors of the Open University .

Haskins lives on a large farm in Skidby .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ essay 26 ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 242 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fedtrust.co.uk
  2. ↑ Northern Foods . Corporate watch. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
  3. ^ Pastures new for milk man turned rural tsar . In: The Guardian . November 18, 2001. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 55210, HMSO, London, July 30, 1998, p. 8287 ( PDF , English).
  5. ↑ Labor peer expelled for donation . In: BBC News . September 23, 2005. Retrieved November 2, 2006.
  6. ↑ Lord Haskins on the EU constitution . BBC News. October 28, 2004. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Haskins, Christopher, Baron Haskins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haskins, Christopher Robin, Baron Haskins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British businessman, member of the House of Lords
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland