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Tom Brake
The Rt Hon Tom Brake is the Director of Unlock Democracy which campaigns for reforms in the UK including proportional representation and House of Lords reform.He was formerly Deputy Leader of the House of Commons, Liberal Democrat Brexit Spokesman and MP for Carshalton and Wallington.He also served as a local Councillor on Hackney and Sutton Councils.
He read physics at Imperial College, London and went to school in France and is a French speaker. He is a longstanding trustee of Ecolocal which delivers a broad range of environmental sustainability services that are designed to help people move toward more pro-environmental behaviours and advises Bioregional, an award-winning sustainability organisation which developed the One Planet Living framework. To take his mind off things, he runs and swims.