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The Lord Pack | |
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 Official portrait, 2025 | |
| President of the Liberal Democrats | |
| In office 1 January 2020 – 1 January 2026 | |
| Leader | Ed Davey & himself (acting) Ed Davey |
| Preceded by | Sal Brinton |
| Succeeded by | Josh Babarinde |
| Leader of the Liberal Democrats | |
| Acting 1 January 2020 – 27 August 2020 Serving with Ed Davey | |
| Deputy | Ed Davey |
| Preceded by | Ed Davey &Sal Brinton (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Ed Davey |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 29 January 2025 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mark Anthony Pack (1970-07-27)27 July 1970 (age 55) |
| Citizenship | British |
| Party | Liberal Democrats |
| Alma mater | University of York (BA,PhD) |
| Website | www |
Mark Anthony Pack, Baron Pack (born 27 July 1970) is a British politician who served as thepresident of the Liberal Democrats from 1 January 2020 until 31 December 2025. After the party's leader,Jo Swinson, lost her seat in the2019 December election, Pack served as acting leader alongsideEd Davey from 1 January 2020 to 27 August 2020, when Davey was elected as leader.
Pack read History and Economics at theUniversity of York from 1988 to 1991. He then undertook a PhD in history, studying nineteenth-century elections, initially at theUniversity of Exeter, before transferring back to theUniversity of York to complete it, in 1994.[1]
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Pack worked as an IT administrator, before working for the Liberal Democrats from 2000 to 2009. He then worked in communications consultancy for MHP Communications, and then Teneo (at the time under the Blue Rubicon brand), from 2009 to 2019.[2][3]
Pack was on the editorial board for theJournal of Liberal History. He was a visiting lecturer atCity University.[4]
While working for the Liberal Democrats, Pack was Head of Innovations, running the party's 2001 and 2005 Internet general election campaigns.[5] He was the Campaign Manager for theHornsey & Wood Green constituency from 1998 to 2005.[6][7] Pack is a long-time Liberal Democrat blogger. He was co-editor of the blogLiberal Democrat Voice until 2013.[8] Since 2011, he has editedLiberal Democrat Newswire, his monthly email newsletter about the party.[9]
Pack stood to be the president of the Liberal Democrats in 2019, with his candidacy supported by MPsLayla Moran[10] andTom Brake, and MEPCatherine Bearder among others.[11] The only other candidate was MPChristine Jardine. Pack was elected by 14,381 (58.6%) to 10,164 votes (41.4%)[12] and began his term on 1 January 2020. AsJo Swinson, previously the leader of the party, had lost her seat in theDecember general election, the deputy leaderEd Davey and the party president acted as co-leaders until a new permanent leader could be elected. Pack thus assumed the acting co-leader role on starting his presidential term on 1 January 2020.[13] After being reelected as president once, he stood down from office at the end of 2025.
Pack ranked 5 out of 50 on the Top 50 Influential Lib Dems of 2020 list.[14]
Pack was announced to be appointed to theHouse of Lords as a Liberal Democratlife peer on 20 December 2024 as part of the2024 Political Peerages.[15] He was createdBaron Pack, of Crouch Hill in the London Borough of Islington on 29 January 2025.[16]
Pack writes frequently about political opinion polls, their uses and abuses, publishing a book on this subject in 2022. He maintains a database of national voting intention opinion polls, going back to 1943, which he believes to be the largest such dataset. This includes an increasing range of party leader and government ratings from other years, including back to the October 1938Gallup question asking about satisfaction withNeville Chamberlain.[17]
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| Preceded by | President of the Liberal Democrats 2020–2026 | Succeeded by |
