John Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford

He released his “financial autobiography” in December 2013 – How to Make a Million – Slowly: Guiding Principles From a Lifetime Investing. He has also published his pictorial autobiography entitled Portfolio Man and in 2019, he published one guide for young people on investing in the stock market entitled Yummi Yoghurt, which references the fictional family company which joins the stock market.

He vowed to resign in February 2012 in protest at the House of Lords Reform Bill making its way into the Queen's Speech.

He left the Conservatives in May 2001, coincidentally prior to the forthcoming election and joined the Liberal Democrats and then was made a life peer as Baron Lee of Trafford of Bowdon in the County of Cheshire on 26 May 2006. From 2007 to 2012, he served as a Whip for the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

He has been chairman of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions the major trade body since 1990. He is a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater Manchester, and was High Sheriff of Greater Manchester in 1998. He was previously chairman of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester and the council of the National Youth Agency.

He served as Junior Minister for Defence Procurement from 1983 to 1986, and then for Employment from 1986 to 1989, being Minister for Tourism, from 1987 to 1989. He became a non executive director in 1999, and a member of the board of the Emerson Group.

He was previously a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 1992.

He contested Manchester Moss Side in October 1974, but was beaten by Labour’s Frank Hatton. He was Conservative MP for Nelson and Colne from 1979 to 1983, and then for Pendle from June 1983 until he lost his seat in April 1992 to Gordon Prentice from Labour.

John Robert Louis Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford, DL (born 21 June 1942) is a British Liberal Democrat politician, who has sat as a life peer since 2006.