Kulveer Singh Ranger, Baron Ranger of Northwood (born 21 February 1975) is an English strategy and communications executive. A board member of the trade association

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, he has been a member of the

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since 2023.

Career

Ranger was the unsuccessful

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parliamentary candidate in

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at the 2005 general election. He unsuccessfully stood in the ward of Syon at the 2006 Hounslow London Borough Council election. After

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's victory in the

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, Johnson selected Ranger to be his director for transport policy. Ranger had previously managed the implementation of the

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with

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in 2003. In 2011, he became Director for Environment and Digital London, with his work resulting in a record fall in bike thefts, in addition to a number of new electric car charging points in London to encourage a higher take up of electric vehicles. Ranger was part of the

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for the 2010 general election but did not stand. He was on the long list to be the Conservative party candidate for the

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House of Lords

Ranger was nominated for a

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age in Boris Johnson's resignation honours list. On 11 July 2023, he was created ''Baron Ranger of Northwood, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster'', and was introduced to the

on 20 July. In May 2024, the House of Lords Conduct Committee found that Ranger had drunkenly bullied and harassed two members of parliamentary staff in the House of Commons

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in January 2024. The committee recommended that Ranger be suspended for three weeks and denied access to the bars of the House of Lords for twelve months. Ranger resigned the Conservative

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in the Lords and sat as a non-affiliated peer. The committee's recommendations were approved by the House of Lords on 18 July. Following his suspension, the Conservative whip was restored to Ranger on 9 August.

Family and early life

Ranger is a

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, born in

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in West

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, the son of Indian parents. His grandfather Gurnam Singh Sahni set up the first British-Asian newspaper, ''The Punjab Times'', in the mid-1960s. Ranger gained an honours degree in architecture from

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. He also has a business diploma from Kingston Business School.

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Family and early life

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