Lord Lea of Crondall

Lord Lea of Crondall

David Edward Lea, Lord Lea of Crondall OBE was born in Tyldesley, Lancashire, on 2 November 1937, and educated at Farnham Grammar School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics.

He joined the TUC in 1964 as a research officer, became Head of the Economic Department, then Assistant General Secretary from 1978 until 1999, when he joined the House of Lords.

Whilst at the TUC, he was secretary of the TUC-Labour Party Liaison Committee from 1972 to 1994, a member of the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth from 1974 until 1979, the Delors Committee on Economic and Social Concepts in the Community 1977 to 1979, the Kreisky Commission on Unemployment in Europe 1986–89. and a Vice President of the European TUC.

He was made a Labour Life peer with the title Lord Lea of Crondall, in 1999.


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