Christopher Haskins

Christopher Robin Haskins, Baron Haskins (* May 30, 1937 in Dublin, Ireland), is a British businessman and former member of the Labour Party.

He is the son of a farmer. He studied at St Columba 's College (Dublin) and Trinity College ( Dublin), where he was one of the radical student and member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was. He graduated in Modern History and moved to become a journalist into consideration. Haskins was employed by De La Rue in the short term, but was dismissed. Thereupon, he married his childhood sweetheart.

Her father Alec Horsley agreed to the marriage on the condition that he was entering the family business, the Yorkshire -based Northern Dairies. After working on a dairy farm in Ireland he joined in 1962 the company has a .. Haskins saw the need for high-quality food products and transformed the company into Northern Foods, whose brands among others Ski yoghurt ' and Bowyers sausages count, and Marks and Spencer was the largest customer for convenience food products. Haskins 1967 Director, 1974 Executive Vice and worked from 1980 to 2002 responsible.

In 1998, he was raised as Baron Haskins for Life Peer, and moved to the House of Lords for the Labour Party. In 2001 he managed on behalf of Prime Minister Tony Blair, the containment of foot-and-mouth disease, which raged at that time in the UK. In August 2005 it was announced that he had donated £ 2,500 for the election campaign of the Liberal Democrat Danny Alexander. He was then expelled from the party. He now sits as a Cross Bencher in the House.

He was chairman of the Better Regulation Task Force and member of the New Deal Task Force. He is pro- Europeans and leading member of the Britain in Europe campaign, the House of Lords European Sub - Committeeund is Chairman of the European Movement. He is a member of Yorkshire Forward and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Open University.

Haskins lives on a large farm in Skidby.