David Hunt, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Hunt of Wirral MBE

David Hunt is Chairman of the Financial Services Division of the international commercial law firm DAC Beachcroft LLP, where he has been a partner since 1969. He has been a parliamentarian for 49 years, first as MP for Wirral, then Wirral West, subsequently as a life peer. He was Secretary of State for Employment in 1993/4 and was a Minister in successive Governments for 16 years as well as being a member of the Cabinets of both Margaret Thatcher and John Major. David is a former President of Chartered Insurance Institute, Chairman of the British Insurance Brokers' Association and the Independent Press Standards Organisation, where he served as inaugural chairman. He is currently the Shadow Minister for Business and Trade.