About Roger Liddle, Baron Liddle
Roger John Liddle, Baron Liddle is a British political adviser and consultant who is principally known for being Special Adviser on European matters to the former Prime Minister Tony Blair, and President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso. He also worked together with Peter Mandelson on books outlining the political philosophy of the Labour Party under Blair's leadership. He is the chair of Progressive Britain, the successor organisation to the international think tank Policy Network and Progress, and was Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University until 2020. In December 2021, Liddle was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University. It was announced that Liddle would be awarded a peerage in the 2010 Dissolution Honours List. He was created a life peer on 19 June 2010 as Baron Liddle, of Carlisle in the County of Cumbria, and was introduced in the House of Lords on 21 June 2010, supported by Peter Mandelson and Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank. Liddle became a member of the Labour Party-associated Progress strategy board in 2017.
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