David Lipsey

David Lipsey - now Lord Lipsey of Tooting Bec - was special adviser to Tony Crosland from 1972 to 1977 and to James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979. As a journalist he was deputy editor of the Sunday Correspondent and of The Times, and political editor of The Economist; he is also author of The Secret Treasury (2000). Lipsey has been a member of three major government commissions: the Royal Commission on the Funding of Long- Term Care for the Elderly, the Jenkins Commission on the Electoral...See more

David Lipsey - now Lord Lipsey of Tooting Bec - was special adviser to Tony Crosland from 1972 to 1977 and to James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979. As a journalist he was deputy editor of the Sunday Correspondent and of The Times, and political editor of The Economist; he is also author of The Secret Treasury (2000). Lipsey has been a member of three major government commissions: the Royal Commission on the Funding of Long- Term Care for the Elderly, the Jenkins Commission on the Electoral System and the Davies Panel on the BBC licence fee. He chairs the all-party parliamentary group on statistics and on classical music and is a racing fanatic - greyhounds, harness racing and jumps. See less