David Lipsey, Baron Lipsey

David Lawrence Lipsey, Baron Lipsey (born 21 April 1948) is a British journalist and Labour Party politician.

After attending Bryanston School, Dorset (1962–67), Lipsey won an Exhibition in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1968 and graduated with a First Class degree, winning the University Gibbs Prize in Politics in 1969.

He went on to become a political adviser to Anthony Crosland in Opposition and an adviser to 10 Downing Street.

He has worked as a journalist for a variety of different publications including the Sunday Times, Sunday Correspondent, The Times, The Guardian and The Economist.

From 1982 to 1983 he was Chairman of the Fabian Society and from 1970 to 1972 Secretary of the Streatham Labour Party.

David Lipsey was awarded a Special Orwell Prize in 1997 for his work as ‘Bagehot’ in The Economist.

Lipsey has held numerous senior posts in public life.

Lipsey was created a Life peer as Baron Lipsey, of Tooting Bec in the London Borough of Wandsworth, on 30 July 1999.

He sits on the Labour benches in the House of Lords.

Lipsey is a fan of greyhound racing and harness racing.

He was also chair of the British Greyhound Racing Board from 2004 to 2009 before it became the Greyhound Board of Great Britain).

He was president of the British Harness Racing Club from 2008 to 2016.

As well as his economic and social interests, he chairs the All Party Parliamentary group on Classical Music (from 2011), is a patron of the Glasbury Arts Festival, a trustee of the Cambrian Orchestra Trust and chairman of the Sidney Nolan Trust (from 2011), as well as being a trustee of other arts organisations.