David Stevens, Baron Stevens of Ludgate
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He was educated at Stowe School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (MA, economics). He is the son of Arthur Edwin Stevens, creator of the first body-worn electronic hearing aid.[2] He was the chairman of United Newspapers, 1981–1999.[3]
He was created a life peer on 27 March 1987 taking the title Baron Stevens of Ludgate, of Ludgate in the City of London.[4] He originally sat as a Conservative, but was expelled by the party in 2004 after he signed a letter in support of UKIP.[3] He sat as an Independent Conservative[5] but joined UKIP in 2012.[3] In late 2018, he left UKIP to once again sit as an Independent Conservative.[5]
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