John Roper, Baron Roper

John Francis Hodges Roper, Baron Roper (* September 10, 1935 ) is a British politician.

He studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and the University of Chicago philosophy, politics and economics.

Roper began his career as a lecturer in economics at the University of Manchester. He went into politics and was elected for the constituency of Farnworth in the British House of Commons. He was the 1970 and 1981 joint deputy of the Labour Party and the Co-operative Party and was from 1981 to 1983 for the Social Democratic Party in parliament. It was during this time that his party Whip. After a change of constituency blank he was from 1983 MP for the constituency of Worsley.

In 2000 he was appointed as Baron Roper for Life Peer. He was until 2005 Whip of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords. He then became a member of the Privy Council. In 2008 he was elected Deputy Chairman of Committees.

From the historian Anthony Glees he was accused to have been during his tenure at Chatham House, an agent of the Ministry of State Security. Lord Roper dismissed the allegations as soon as possible. He said he had built in East Germany in the 1980s bridges in the thaw policy of the Foreign Ministry. He had been led astray, he said, about the background of an undercover Stasi officer, whom he had hired as the director of Chatham House was.