Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch (born 20 July 1942) is a British businessman and United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) member of the House of Lords. Educated at Eton College, Pearson is chairman of the Pearson Webb Springbett (PWS) Group of reinsurance brokers, which he founded in 1964. He was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 as Baron Pearson of Rannoch, of Bridge of Gaur in the District of Perth and Kinross, sitting as a Conservative.

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  • Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch (born 20 July 1942) is a British businessman and United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) member of the House of Lords. Educated at Eton College, Pearson is chairman of the Pearson Webb Springbett (PWS) Group of reinsurance brokers, which he founded in 1964. He was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 as Baron Pearson of Rannoch, of Bridge of Gaur in the District of Perth and Kinross, sitting as a Conservative. Pearson is a euro-sceptic of long standing. In May 2004, he called for voters to back the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Along with three other Conservative peers, he was then expelled by the Conservative Party on 30 May. He subsequently said that he would probably sit as an "independent Conservative". He threatened to quit the Tories to join UKIP, which he did on 7 January 2007, along with Lord Willoughby de Broke. He criticised the Conservative Party's leadership for being "silly" and argued that they should try to get UKIP members back into the fold by adopting more anti-European Union policies themselves. He has tabled a number of unsuccessful bills in the House of Lords demanding Britain's immediate withdrawal from the European Union. In November 2006 he tabled the European Union (Implications of Withdrawal) Bill which called for the establishment of a Committee of Inquiry into the implications of UK withdrawal from the European Union. Also, he joined the United Kingdom Independence Party sometime afterwards, citing David Cameron's refusal to tell the British people about the disadvantages they suffer because Britain is a member of the EU. He is also the co-founder of an anti-EU think-tank, Global Britain, which has campaigned against alleged pro-EU bias at the BBC. He is a strong supporter of the pro-hunting Countryside Alliance, serving as chairman of its deerstalking committee. Pearson has been married three times: to Francesca Frua de Angeli in 1965, with whom he had one daughter and whom he divorced in 1970; to the Hon. Mary Charteris in 1977, with whom he had two daughters and whom he divorced in 1995; and to Caroline St Vincent Rose in 1997. In February 2009, Lord Pearson further courted controversy when he and right-wing cross-bencher Baroness Cox invited Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to show the anti-Islam film Fitna before the House of Lords. However, Wilders was prevented from entering the UK on the instructions of the Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith. In response, Pearson and Cox accused the Government of "appeasing" militant Islam. In September 2009 Pearson announced his candidacy to replace Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP.
  • Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch is een Brits zakenman en lid van het Britse Hogerhuis namens de United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Pearson staat bekend als Europa scepticus en hij pleitte ook voor de terugtrekking van Groot-Brittannië uit de Europese Unie. Ook was hij medeoprichter van de anti-EU denktank Global Britain die campagne voert tegen de vermeende pro Europa berichtgeving van de BBC. In februari 2009 nodigde Lord Pearson Geert Wilders uit om zijn film Fitna te komen vertonen in het Britse Hogerhuis.
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  • Malcolm Everard MacLaren Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch (born 20 July 1942) is a British businessman and United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) member of the House of Lords. Educated at Eton College, Pearson is chairman of the Pearson Webb Springbett (PWS) Group of reinsurance brokers, which he founded in 1964. He was made a life peer on 18 June 1990 as Baron Pearson of Rannoch, of Bridge of Gaur in the District of Perth and Kinross, sitting as a Conservative.
  • Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch is een Brits zakenman en lid van het Britse Hogerhuis namens de United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP). Pearson staat bekend als Europa scepticus en hij pleitte ook voor de terugtrekking van Groot-Brittannië uit de Europese Unie. Ook was hij medeoprichter van de anti-EU denktank Global Britain die campagne voert tegen de vermeende pro Europa berichtgeving van de BBC.
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