Christopher Murray Jackson (24 May 1935 – 13 December 2019) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1979 to 1994.
[1] After a National Service Commission in the RAF as a pilot, Jackson read physics at Magdalen College, Oxford, of which he was an Open Exhibitioner.
Jackson contested East Ham South as a Conservative in the 1970 General Election and Northampton North in 1974.
In 1984 he proposed the inclusion of subsidiarity in the Draft Treaty on European Union and led a European Parliament delegation, including Altiero Spinelli to the UK for discussions on the Draft Treaty with the Conservative, Labour, and Liberal parties, the CBI and the TUC.
He became Deputy Leader of Conservative MEPs in 1989, remaining in that position until 1991, and Co-President of the EP Working Group on Population and Development.