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Lance Forman
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Lance Forman

British politician (born 1962)

Lance Philip Anisfeld (born 13 October 1962), known professionally as Lance Philip Forman, is a British politician and businessman, who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for London between 2 July 2019 and the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the EU.2

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Born Oct 13, 1962.1

About

Previously affiliated with the Conservative Party, Forman was elected to the European Parliament as a Brexit Party MEP, however he resigned the party whip in December 2019 in order to support the Conservative Party's Brexit strategy. He later joined the Conservative Party and for part of January 2020 was a member of the ECR group.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School3
  • Date not recordedTrinity College3

Forman was born in Islington and educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1985, as Lance Anisfeld, he was President of Cambridge Union.

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Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, politician, businessperson.6

  • 2020Member of the European Parliament5
  • 2019 to 2020Member of the European Parliament5
  • Date not recordedChief executive, H. Forman and Son4

Forman worked at Price Waterhouse Coopers as an accountant before being employed as a Special Adviser on trade related matters, 1991–92, to Peter Lilley, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry.

He was subsequently a partner of EastS, a small property advisory firm specialising in Eastern Europe. The Observer reported that Forman specialised in the privatisation of enterprises in former eastern European Soviet states and held real estate in Ukraine. Forman told The Observer that he acted "as a consultant" in this regard.

H. Forman & Son

Forman manages H. Forman and Son, a smoked salmon business in Fish Island, London. He is the fourth-generation owner of the company. The business faced threats of a local boycott in the wake of his election as a London MEP for the Brexit Party, a group which won only 10.1% of votes locally in the May 2019 European Parliament elections. Police investigations were opened in the run-up to the elections after a 10-metre swastika was spray-painted on the side of the business in a suspected anti-semitic attack. Forman has claimed that he does not believe his business was targeted due to his Jewish heritage but rather because he supports Brexit.

Forman successfully applied for the EU’s protected geographical indication (PGI) status for H. Forman and Son's "London cure" smoked salmon. The designation provides protected name status to products under EU law, allowing the London cure to be labelled and protected with an EU trade mark. While acknowledging "The irony" of gaining EU protection due to his eurosceptic views, Forman said he was "very proud", while the prime minister, Theresa May, called the designation "fantastic". In an August 2018 interview for Salmon Business, Forman dismissed the idea that the EU has advanced his business, saying, "I can honestly say that having been in the EU hasn’t created any serious commercial advantages for our business".

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Personal life

  • BornOct 13, 1962, London7
  • CitizenshipUnited Kingdom8

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