Mark Littlewood

Mark James Littlewood (born 28 April 1972) is a director of Popular Development Partners Limited.

[1] He was formerly the director general of the libertarian free market Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA),[2] and before that the chief press spokesman for the Liberal Democrats and the Pro-Euro Conservative Party[3] and was an advisor to the Conservative Party under Prime Minister David Cameron.

[11] In 2018, Littlewood was recorded telling an undercover reporter that the Institute of Economic Affairs is in the 'Brexit-influencing game', offering potential US donors access to government ministers and civil servants, as it raises cash for research to support the free-trade deals demanded by hardline Brexiteers.

Littlewood has been further cited by The Guardian to say that he has "absolutely no problem with people who have business interests, us facilitating those"[12] An investigation by Unearthed has come to find out that the IEA has been working with US donors to capitalise on the opportunity presented by Brexit to alter the rules and regulations that determine how products in the UK are being consumed.

[13] Littlewood was reported to have been considered for a peerage in Liz Truss's Resignation Honours,[14][2] but was not included on the list published in December 2023.