Ian Richard Peregrine Liddell-Grainger (born 23 February 1959) is a British Conservative Party politician and former property developer.

[8] In 2006, Liddell-Grainger was disqualified from the WriteToThem league table after faking e-mails and replies to himself to improve his "responsiveness rating" on a website which helps people contact their elected representatives.

[13] The cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future projects was one of the first acts by the newly elected coalition government's Minister for Education Michael Gove.

[16] In 2010, Liddell-Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

[20] In March 2013 he supported the decision to allow planning permission to build a third nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.

His interests include the economy, taxation, treatment for dyslexia, constitutional affairs and rural matters; he has also spoken out in favour of making Herceptin available for early-stage breast cancer sufferers.

In 2010, he was reprimanded by the Conservative Party Leader and Chief Whip over his behaviour towards the former Chief Executive of Somerset County Council,[33] whilst in 2015 the majority of Conservative West Somerset councillors backed calls for him to be de-selected for "divisive" and "unsupportive" behaviour.

In March 2015, West Somerset Council leader Tim Taylor compiled a dossier of complaints, which was sent to the Conservative Party chairman and chief whip.

In February 2014, in the context of flooding on the Somerset Levels, Liddell-Grainger called the chairman of the Environment Agency, Baron Smith of Finsbury a "little git", and a "coward" and said he would like to "stick his head down the loo and flush".

Liddell-Grainger placed the blame for the floods on the Environment Agency's policy of not dredging the local rivers,[37] and said that he would be consulting with Dutch hydrological experts.

[39] In September 2015, Liddell-Grainger criticised the Conservative run Somerset County Council for cutting services and carrying out wasteful reorganisations.

He had previously criticised young voters who had been unable to register to vote in the EU referendum because the government website crashed on the last day of registration, saying they should 'pay the price for their own tardiness'.

[41] Following the incident, the satirical magazine Private Eye published an article that asked if the actions of the MP, coupled with his continued electoral success, meant that he was 'Somerset's answer to Donald Trump'.

[43] The practice of MPs employing family members was criticised by some sections of the media on the lines that it promotes nepotism.