Matthew Elliot

Matthew Elliott is chief executive of the Tax Payers Alliance and " a political consultant in London and Brussels." 

As a student at the London School of Economics, 1997-2000, he was leader of the Hayek Society. Between 1998 and 2001, he worked as a researcher for the European Foundation, where he wrote critically on Economic and Monetary Union, tax harmonisation and the Nice Treaty. 

Until he started at the Tax Payers Alliance, he was Special Adviser to Conservative MEP Timothy Kirkhope and for Conservative MP Bill Cash.

Elliott is a regular contributor to Tech Central Station.