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| name = The Lord Hannan of Kingsclere
| image = Daniel Hannan by Gage Skidmore.jpg
| caption = Dan Hannan in 2012
| office = [[Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lord Temporal]]
| term_start = 1 February 2021<br />[[Life peer]]age
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| office1 = [[Board of Trade|Adviser to the UK Board of Trade]]
| primeminister1 = [[Boris Johnson]]<br /> [[Liz Truss]]<br /> [[Rishi Sunak]]
| 1blankname1 =  [[President of the Board of Trade|President]]
| 1namedata1 = [[Liz Truss]]<br /> [[Anne-Marie Trevelyan]]<br />[[Kemi Badenoch]]
| term_start1 = 4 September 2020
| term_end1 = 31 August 2024 
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| term_end2 = 31 January 2020
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| birth_place = [[Lima]], Peru
| nationality = British
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| party = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
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'''Daniel John Hannan, Baron Hannan of Kingsclere''' (born 1 September 1971) is a British writer, journalist and politician. A member of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], he was a [[Member of the European Parliament]] (MEP) for [[South East England (European Parliament constituency)|South East England]] from [[1999 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|1999]] to 2020. In 2021 he became a sitting member of the [[House of Lords]], taking the Conservative [[Whip (politics)|whip]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Parliamentary career |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/4905/career |website=parliament.uk |access-date=19 September 2023}}</ref> and in 2020 became an adviser to the [[Board of Trade]]. He is the founding president of the [[Initiative for Free Trade]].

Hannan was the first secretary-general of the [[Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe]] (ACRE), serving from 2009 to 2018. He was one of the founders of [[Vote Leave]], one of the organisations that campaigned to [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|leave the EU in 2016]], and served on its board throughout the referendum. He played a prominent role in the referendum campaign, participating in a number of public debates. He ceased to be a member of the [[European Parliament]] at the [[Brexit|United Kingdom's exit from the EU]] in 2020.

Hannan has written columns for ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'', the ''[[International Business Times]], [[ConservativeHome]]'', and the ''[[Washington Examiner]]'', as well as occasional columns in the ''[[Daily Mail]]'', ''[[The Guardian]]'', ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', ''[[The Spectator]]'', and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''. He is editor-in-chief of ''The Conservative'', a quarterly journal of centre-right political thought.<ref name="Opinion Articles">{{cite web|title=Daniel Hannan|url=http://danielhannan.info/opinion|access-date=23 January 2018|publisher=danielhannan.info}}</ref> He has published several books.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Daniel Hannan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/daniel-hannan|website=The Guardian}}</ref>

==Early life==
Hannan was born on 1 September 1971 in [[Lima]], Peru.<ref name="European Parliament biography">{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?country=GB&partNumber=1&zone=South+East&language=EN&id=4555|title=Daniel Hannan profile|publisher=[[European Parliament]]|access-date=25 August 2017}}</ref><ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate">{{cite news|title=Daniel Hannan: the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate|first1=Rachel|last1=Sylvester|first2=Alice|last2=Thomson|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/daniel-hannan-the-tory-eurosceptic-mep-whom-labour-loves-to-hate-2r9mnfdxj2m|newspaper=[[The Times]]|date=5 October 2009|access-date=16 December 2011}}</ref> His mother was a Scot who had been working in the British Embassy in Lima. His father, whose family origins are [[Ulster]] [[Irish Catholics|Catholic]],<ref name="bloodysunday">{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100043608/david-cameron-was-right-to-apologise-bloody-sunday-diminished-us-all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617233205/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100043608/david-cameron-was-right-to-apologise-bloody-sunday-diminished-us-all|archive-date=17 June 2010|title=David Cameron was right to apologise: Bloody Sunday diminished us all|access-date=17 June 2010}}</ref> had been educated in the UK and had served in Italy during the [[Second World War]] with the [[North Irish Horse]] of the [[British Army]].<ref name="bloodysunday"/>{{Better source needed|reason=Sourced to a blog entry by the subject but his father was 14 in 1939, so the dates seem not to quite add up.|date=April 2021}} Hannan grew up on his parents' farm outside Lima, attending school and university in Britain.<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate" /> He was educated at Winchester House School and [[Marlborough College]].<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate" />

Hannan read [[modern history]] at [[Oriel College, Oxford|Oriel College]], [[University of Oxford|Oxford]].<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate"/> He was active in university politics, being elected President of the [[Oxford University Conservative Association]] in 1992, when [[Nicky Morgan]] was his opponent.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blair|first1=David|title=A History of the Oxford University Conservative Association|date=1995|publisher=Andrew Page|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=czYyIgAACAAJ}}</ref> As an undergraduate, he established the Oxford Campaign for an Independent Britain in 1990,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Blair|first1=David|title=A History of OUCA|date=1995|publisher=Andrew Page}}</ref>{{r|kuper20190620}} a group which campaigned against closer EU integration – a theme that was to shape his later career.

On 12 September 1992, he organised a protest at the EU finance ministers' summit in Bath against membership of the [[European Exchange Rate Mechanism]]. Three days later, the [[Pound sterling|pound]] was forced to leave the system in an event known as [[Black Wednesday]]. In an article published in ''The Daily Telegraph'', Hannan claimed that this event was connected with his protest activities.<ref name=":0">Daniel Hannan [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2773280/How-our-one-small-protest-toppled-the-pound.html "How Our One Small Protest Toppled the Pound"], ''The Daily Telegraph'', 13 September 2002.</ref>

==Early political career==
After graduating in 1993, Hannan became the first director of the [[European Research Group]], an organisation for [[Euroscepticism|Eurosceptic]] Conservative MPs chaired by [[Michael Spicer (politician)|Michael Spicer]]. From 1994 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the National Association of Conservative Graduates.<ref name="europarl">[http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?id=4555 MEP biography], europarl.europa.eu; accessed 4 September 2017.</ref>
In 1996, he became a leader-writer at ''The Daily Telegraph'' under [[Charles Moore (journalist)|Charles Moore]]. He wrote leaders for the paper until 2004, and has written blogs and columns ever since. Hannan has since contributed to ''The Spectator'' and many other newspapers and magazines around the world. In 1997, he became an adviser and speechwriter to [[Michael Howard]], then Shadow Foreign Secretary.<ref>"Latin Link", ''The Times'' (17 May 1997), pg. 22.</ref>

In 2001, during the general election campaign, while already serving as an MEP, he wrote speeches for [[William Hague]],<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate"/> the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] leader. In 1999 he stood down from his posts at the European Research Group and Conservative Graduates.<ref name="europarl"/>

==Member of the European Parliament==
Hannan was elected to the European Parliament in [[1999 European Parliament election|1999]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://hannan.co.uk|title=Daniel Hannan|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> His first act on being elected was to write an article in ''The Daily Telegraph'' about the expenses and allowances available to MEPs, which caused great controversy.<ref>Hannan, Daniel (2003-10-19). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/1444566/I-shouldnt-say-this-but-the-expenses-here-are-fabulous.html I shouldn't say this, but the expenses here are fabulous]. ''Daily Telegraph''. Retrieved 2022-06-18.</ref>

In 2000, he launched a public appeal to support the underfunded "No" campaign in [[2000 Danish euro referendum|Denmark's referendum on joining the euro]]. ''The Guardian'' newspaper accused him of running the appeal from his parliamentary office, but withdrew the accusation when it was shown that he had, in fact, operated out of his own flat.<ref>[[George Eaton (journalist)|George Eaton]] [http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/08/hannan-conservative-cameron The NS Profile: Daniel Hannan], newstatesman.com, 20 August 2009.</ref> Denmark ultimately voted against joining the euro.<ref>Jorgensen, Carsten (2000-10-27). [https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/publications/article/2000/denmark-votes-no-to-the-euro Denmark votes no to the euro]. Eurofound. Retrieved 2022-06-18.</ref>

Hannan was re-elected at the top of his party's list for the South East England constituency in [[2004 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|2004]]. He was re-elected again, in 2009 and 2014, each time at the head of the Conservative list,<ref name="Daniel Hannan MEP">{{Cite web|url=https://www.aldershotconservatives.com/people/daniel-hannan-mep|title=Daniel Hannan MEP|website=Aldershot|access-date=25 January 2018|archive-date=16 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116073525/https://www.aldershotconservatives.com/people/daniel-hannan-mep}}</ref> a ranking determined by party members in a postal ballot.

In December 2018, Hannan ranked 738 out of 751 MEPs for his participation in roll call votes in the European Parliament.<ref>{{cite web|date=14 December 2018|title=Daniel Hannan|url=http://www.votewatch.eu/en/term8-daniel-hannan-2.html|access-date=14 December 2018|publisher=votewatch.eu}}</ref>

===Campaign against the Lisbon Treaty===
One of Hannan's longest-running campaigns as an MEP was for a referendum, first on the European Constitution and then, when that text was revised and renamed, on the [[Treaty of Lisbon|Lisbon Treaty]]. He would end every speech, whatever its subject, with a call, in Latin, for the Lisbon treaty to be put to the vote: "''Pactio Olisipiensis censenda est''". The words were a deliberate echo of [[Cato the Elder]], the [[Roman Senate|Roman Senator]] who ended every speech with a call for [[Carthage]] to be destroyed: "''[[Carthago delenda est]]''".<ref>{{cite news|first=Daniel|last=Hannan|title=EU treaty censored by Euro-federalists|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/danielhannan/3553818/EU-treaty-censored-by-Euro-federalists.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 January 2008|access-date=3 March 2008|location=London}}<br />- {{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+20080130+ITEM-013+DOC+XML+V0//EN|title=European Parliament debates|date=30 January 2008|website=Webcitation.org|access-date=14 August 2009|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/5eoU36rEa?url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+20080130+ITEM-013+DOC+XML+V0//EN|archive-date=23 February 2009}}</ref>

When no referendum was forthcoming, Hannan began to use parliamentary procedure to draw attention to his campaign. Under the rules as they then stood, all MEPs were allowed to speak for up to 60 seconds following the vote on each matter on which they had voted, a procedure known as "Explanations of Vote".<ref name="Hannan">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/danielhannan/3554419/Whatever-else-they-are-MEPs-are-not-Nazis.html|title=Whatever else they are, MEPs are not Nazis|journal=The Daily Telegraph|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|access-date=25 January 2018|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> In 2008, he organised a multi-national rota of Eurosceptic MEPs to speak on every permissible vote, always ending their speeches by calling for a referendum on Lisbon.<ref name="Hannan" />

The campaign served to delay proceedings, and the [[President of the European Parliament]], [[Hans-Gert Pöttering]], declared that he should have a discretionary right to disallow any such interventions when he was "convinced that these are manifestly intended to cause, and will result in, a prolonged and serious obstruction of the procedures of the House or the rights of other Members" (Rule 20, para 1).{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

Following this intervention when Hannan continued speaking after his allocated time, he was interrupted and had his microphone cut off by [[Luigi Cocilovo]], one of the [[Vice-Presidents of the European Parliament|14 Vice-Presidents]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+CRE+20080131+ITEM-001+DOC+XML+V0//EN&language=EN|title=Debates|date=31 January 2008|access-date=7 March 2008|publisher=[[European Parliament]]}}</ref>

Hannan reacted by likening the European Parliament to 1930s Germany:{{blockquote|An absolute majority is not the same as the rule of law. I accept that there is a minority in this house in favour of a referendum. That there is a minority in this house against the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. But this house must nonetheless follow its own rulebooks. And by popular acclamation to discard the rules under which we operate is indeed an act of arbitrary and despotic rule. It is only my regard for you Mr. Chairman and my personal affection for you that prevents me from likening it to the ''[[Enabling Act of 1933|Ermächtigungsgesetz of 1933]]'' which was also voted through by a parliamentary majority.|sign=Daniel Hannan|source=}}

In response to this the [[European People's Party group|EPP]] leader, [[Joseph Daul]], initiated proceedings to expel Hannan from the group. At the relevant meeting, Hannan told members that the ideological differences between him and the majority of EPP members on the question of European integration made his expulsion their only logical choice. He duly left the group on 20 February 2008, and sat as a non-attached ([[Non-Inscrits|non-inscrit]]) member until the rest of the British Conservatives followed to form the European Conservatives and Reformists following the 2009 election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4555/DANIEL_HANNAN_history.html|title=Daniel Hannan: History of Parliamentary Service|publisher=European Parliament|access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>

Hannan, who had campaigned against EPP membership since before his election, rejoined his colleagues in the new [[European Conservatives and Reformists Group|ECR]] Group in 2009, and became the first Secretary-General of its attached Euro-party, [[AECR]], subsequently [[Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe|ACRE]].<ref name="Daniel Hannan MEP" />

While he was Secretary-General, ACRE attracted criticism over spending of EU funds to promote events  of limited relevance or benefit to the EU. On 10 December 2018, European parliament senior leaders ordered ACRE to repay €535,609 (£484,367) of EU funds adjudged to have been spent on inappropriate events, including €250,000 spent on a three-day event at a luxury beach resort in Miami and €90,000 spent on a trade "summit" at a five-star hotel on the shores of Lake Victoria in Kampala. Parliament authorities suggest that Hannan used EU funds for ACRE to support other pet projects, such as his free-trade [[thinktank]], the Initiative for Free Trade (IFT), as well as Conservatives International.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/13/daniel-hannan-mep-group-told-to-repay-half-a-million-in-eu-funds|title=Daniel Hannan's MEP group told to repay €535,000 in EU funds|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref>

==="The devalued Prime Minister" speech===
On 24 March 2009, after [[Gordon Brown]] had given a short speech to the [[European Parliament]] in [[Strasbourg]] in advance of the [[2009 G20 London summit|G20 London summit]], Hannan followed up by delivering a 3-minute speech strongly criticising the response by Gordon Brown to the [[2008 financial crisis]]. He finished the speech with the phrase, "the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government", which was a quote taken from a 1992 speech by then-[[Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party leader]] [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] about Prime Minister [[John Major]].<ref>{{cite news |title=24 September 1992: Smith attacks 'devalued' PM |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/historic_moments/newsid_8183000/8183772.stm |work=BBC Democracy Live |date=31 October 2009}}</ref> A video clip of the speech went [[Viral video|viral]] on [[YouTube]] that evening,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.uat.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin/9290067/Hurrah_for_Hannan_Brown_hasnt_been_spoken_to_like_that_for_decades|title=Hurrah for Hannan: Brown hasn't been spoken to like that for decades|first=Iian|last=Martin|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=25 March 2009|location=London}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}<br />- {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/5050574/MEP-Dan-Hannans-Brezhnev-apparatchik-attack-on-Gordon-Brown-is-a-YouTube-hit.html|title=MEP Dan Hannan's 'Brezhnev apparatchik' attack on Gordon Brown is a YouTube hit|work=The Daily Telegraph|author=Bingham, John|date=25 March 2009|access-date=27 March 2009|location=London}}</ref> eventually viewed over 3 million times, and two years later remained the most-watched YouTube video of any UK politician.<ref>{{cite web |title=YouTube political pops: Daniel Hannan tops the charts |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-16209411 |work=BBC |first=Gavin |last=Stamp |date=23 December 2011}}</ref>

The video of the speech brought Hannan to prominence in both the UK and elsewhere around the world, notably the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=Browns join Twitter war over NHS|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8199615.stm|newspaper=[[BBC News]]|date=13 August 2009|access-date=7 March 2012}}</ref> In the following months, Hannan appeared both via satellite and in person on various [[Fox News]] shows, including those of [[Sean Hannity]], [[Glenn Beck]] and [[Neil Cavuto]].<ref name="remember when">{{cite news |title=Remember when Daniel Hannan kept appearing on Fox News to attack the NHS? |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/05/remember-when-daniel-hannan-kept-appearing-fox-news-attack-nhs |first=Jonn |last=Elledge |work=New Statesman America |date=15 May 2017}}</ref> Given that the United States was then in the middle of a debate about the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]], Hannan was often asked about the benefits of the British [[National Health Service]]. Hannan generally criticized the NHS, saying it "puts the power of life and death in the hands of a state bureaucracy".<ref name="remember when" />

Hannan later said that he was "slightly perplexed" at the popularity of the speech, given that he had made similar speeches before. However, he was pleased with the outcome, saying that it showed that, with the rise of the internet, "political reporters no longer get to decide what's news", which he felt was "good news for libertarians of every stripe."<ref>{{cite news|title=Why has Daniel Hannan become an internet sensation? |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2009/mar/26/danial-hannan-youtube |first=Andrew |last=Sparrow |work=The Guardiann |date=26 March 2009}}</ref>

===Campaign to leave the EU===
Hannan, being one of the founders of the [[Vote Leave]] campaign, was at the forefront of the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|2016 Referendum]] on membership of the European Union.<ref>{{cite web|author=Sam Knight|date=29 September 2016|title=The man who brought you Brexit|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/29/daniel-hannan-the-man-who-brought-you-brexit|access-date=8 July 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]}}<br />- {{cite web|title=Gisela Stuart to Chair Vote Leave campaign|work=Vote Leave |url=http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/gisela_stuart_to_chair_vote_leave_campaign|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727232557/http://www.voteleavetakecontrol.org/gisela_stuart_to_chair_vote_leave_campaign|archive-date=27 July 2016|access-date=29 July 2016}}</ref> Described in ''The Guardian'' as "the man who brought you Brexit",<ref>{{Cite news|last=Knight|first=Sam|title=The man who brought you Brexit|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/29/daniel-hannan-the-man-who-brought-you-brexit|access-date=8 July 2018|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> the ''[[Financial Times]]'' described his Oxford Campaign for an Independent Britain as the start of the Brexit movement.<ref name="kuper20190620">{{Cite news|last=Kuper|first=Simon|date=2019-06-20|title=How Oxford university shaped Brexit – and Britain's next prime minister|language=en-GB|work=Financial Times|url=https://www.ft.com/content/85fc694c-9222-11e9-b7ea-60e35ef678d2 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/85fc694c-9222-11e9-b7ea-60e35ef678d2 |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-status=live|url-access=subscription|access-date=2019-06-21}}</ref>

Along with [[Douglas Carswell]], Hannan is credited with being "part of the hard core who kept the flame of [[Tory]] [[Euroscepticism in the United Kingdom|Euroscepticism]] burning – and tirelessly promoted their own positive, internationalist case for Britain's exit from the EU in parallel to [[Nigel Farage|Farage]]'s negative, isolationist one."<ref>{{Cite news|date=25 June 2016|title=12 people who brought about Brexit|work=Politico|url=https://www.politico.eu/article/12-people-who-brought-about-brexit-leave-remain-referendum-campaign-euroskeptics-tension/|access-date=2 July 2018}}</ref> As he was about to graduate in 1992, Hannan wrote to [[Maastricht Rebels|Tory rebels]] who were against the [[Maastricht Treaty]] in 1992; together they created the [[European Research Group]], with Hannan as their secretary.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Knight|first=Sam|date=29 September 2016|title=The man who brought you Brexit|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/29/daniel-hannan-the-man-who-brought-you-brexit|access-date=8 July 2018|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Hannan said that the name was intentionally innocuous,<ref>{{cite book | last=Hannan | first=Daniel | title=What Next | publisher=Head of Zeus | publication-place=London | date=2016-11-17 | isbn=978-1-78669-193-4|oclc=966311650}}</ref> since the group worked unabashedly against the [[Currency union|single currency]] and the [[European Court of Justice|ECJ]]. He was involved in the creation of the [[Congress for Democracy]], an umbrella organisation for various Eurosceptic groups, which reportedly contained both [[trade union]] shop stewards and  activists of the [[UKIP]] party.
On Twitter, Hannan claimed that "it's irresponsible to scare EU nationals in the UK by hinting their status might change after Brexit. No one's suggesting such a thing".<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|date=3 March 2016|title=It's irresponsible to scare EU nationals in the UK by hinting that their status might change after Brexit. No one's suggesting such a thing.|url=https://twitter.com/danieljhannan/status/705375753303683072}}</ref> This was despite the government's wish to make EU nationals apply for "settled status" to remain in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Settled and pre-settled status for EU citizens and their families|url=https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families|access-date=27 February 2019|work=HM Government}}</ref>

In an interview in 2015 Hannan asserted that "absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the single market."<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 October 2018|title=What was promised about the customs union before the referendum?|url=https://fullfact.org/europe/what-was-promised-about-customs-union-referendum/}}</ref> Seven years later, he began a ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'' column with "Staying in the single market, or large parts of it, would have saved us a lot of trouble", noting that that statement had long been treated as a "pledge" and used to discredit him.<ref name="2022 Telegraph column">{{cite news|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|title=We should have stayed in the single market, but rejoining it now would be madness|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/04/should-have-stayed-single-market-rejoining-now-would-madness/|newspaper=[[Daily Telegraph]]|date=4 June 2022|access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref> Critics of Brexit treated that as a major concession on his part, given his lengthy advocacy for the UK to leave the EU long before 2016.<ref name="Williams Guardian column">{{cite news|last=Williams|first=Zoe|author-link=Zoe Williams (writer)|title=How do you convince a leaver Brexit was a bad idea? Make them stand in a queue|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/07/how-do-you-convince-a-leaver-brexit-was-a-bad-idea-make-them-stand-in-a-queue|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 June 2022|access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="2022 New Statesman column">{{cite news|last=Elledge|first=Jonn|title=Why is the biggest Brexiteer now saying the UK should have stayed in the single market?|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/06/why-is-the-biggest-brexiteer-saying-we-should-have-stayed-in-the-single-market-now|newspaper=[[New Statesman]]|date=6 June 2022|access-date=14 June 2022}}</ref>

Hannan clarified that what he had always advocated was that after leaving the EU, the UK should rejoin the [[European Free Trade Association]], of which it had been a founding member, and thus retain what benefits of the single market it felt it should. Given the narrow success of the referendum, he emphasized that it was important that an agreement on the terms of Britain's departure have broad support from both sides, and he believed that would have been a start. Had Cameron's successor been an enthusiastic Leave supporter, Hannan believed, that would have come to pass and the UK would have left the EU earlier than it ultimately did. May's support for retaining freedom of movement above all else hampered that transition, empowered extremists on both sides, and led to Britain's failure to take advantage of many opportunities to relax or repeal EU legislation it had retained, leaving the UK in some ways more restrictive than some EU countries.<ref name="2022 Telegraph column" />

Hannan in 2016 wrote an article imagining what Britain would look like on 24 June 2025, with all the advantages of having left the EU and being freed from its rules, saying that the UK had become the world leader in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software, with new industries springing up and older industries becoming competitive again. The EU had meanwhile stagnated.<ref>{{cite web | last=Hannan | first=Daniel | title=What Britain looks like [on 24 June 2025] after Brexit| website=REACTION | date=21 June 2016 | url=https://www.reaction.life/p/britain-looks-like-brexit}}</ref>

Some of those who responded were not convinced, primarily noting that if that was what Hannan felt, he should have said so "with any kind of force between 2016 and 2019, when it might have changed or meant anything", as [[Zoe Williams (writer)|Zoe Williams]] argued in ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref name="Williams Guardian column" /> [[Jonn Elledge]] in ''[[New Statesman]]'' concurred that Hannan was only willing to say this so bluntly when doing so carried no political risk to himself or his side. "Much easier instead to blame the lack of compromise on Remainers and the left, two groups who famously had a huge degree of influence over Theresa May's thinking."<ref name="2022 New Statesman column" />

==''The Conservative''==
In September 2016, Hannan launched ''The Conservative'',<ref name="Welcoming">{{cite journal|title=Welcoming two newcomers on a pair of publications that will ponder the political puzzles of our day.|journal=The New Criterion|date=March 2017|url=http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/-i-Welcoming-two-newcomers-i--8615|access-date=20 March 2017}}</ref> a periodical publication in print volume and in an online version published quarterly. In an editorial, he defined its philosophy as follows:
{{blockquote|"Conservatism is an instinct rather than an ideology. It is ironic, quizzical, cool-tempered, distrustful of grand theories. Conservatives understand that the things they cherish – property rights, parliamentary government, personal freedom, norms of courtesy – take a long time to build up, but can be quickly destroyed."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theconservative.online/journal|title=The Conservative Online, Issue 2|date=January 2017|website=The Conservative Online|access-date=30 January 2018|archive-date=30 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180130204623/http://www.theconservative.online/journal}}</ref>}}

== After the European Parliament ==
Between September 2020 and August 2024 Hannan was an advisor to the British [[Board of Trade]].<ref name="https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/board-of-trade#advisers-to-the-board-september-2020">{{Cite web|title=Board of Trade|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/board-of-trade|website=GOV.UK}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Register of Interests for Lord Hannan of Kingsclere - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/4905/registeredinterests |website=members.parliament.uk |access-date=31 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> That December it was announced he would be made a [[life peer]] after a [[2020 Political Honours|nomination]] by Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Political Peerages 2020|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/political-peerages-2020|access-date=22 December 2020|website=Gov.uk}}</ref> In the morning of Monday 25 January 2021 he was created '''''Baron Hannan of Kingsclere''', of [[Kingsclere]] in the County of Hampshire''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3723276 |publisher=The London Gazette |access-date=28 January 2021 |title=Crown Office}}</ref>

==Political positions==
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===Localism===
Hannan is an advocate of [[Localism (politics)|localism]].<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate"/> He believes that local government independence is impossible without giving fiscal autonomy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Let's put the local back into local elections|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/local-elections/8485600/Lets-put-the-local-back-into-local-elections.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=30 April 2011|access-date=16 December 2011}}</ref> To that end, he supports replacing [[Value Added Tax (United Kingdom)|Value Added Tax]] with a local [[sales tax]], set by local councils.<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate"/>

He was co-author, along with 27 Conservative MPs elected in 2005, of ''Direct Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party'', which proposes the wholesale devolution of power and the direct election of decision-makers, and the replacement of the NHS with a private insurance system<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jeremy-hunt-privatise-nhs-tories-privatising-private-insurance-market-replacement-direct-democracy-a6865306.html|title=Jeremy Hunt co-authored book calling for NHS to be replaced with private insurance|date=10 February 2016|work=The Independent|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref> These ideas were developed further in a series of six pamphlets, ''The Localist Papers'', serialised in ''The Daily Telegraph'' in 2007.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://witteringsfromwitney.com/tag/localist-papers|title=Localist Papers|website=witteringsfromwitney.com|access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref>

===Nationalism===
Hannan is an advocate of national sovereignty and has questioned the idea that "[[nationalism]] causes war".<ref name=nationalism>{{cite news|title=Let's hear it for nationalism|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lets-hear-it-for-nationalism|newspaper=[[The Washington Examiner]]|date=25 September 2017|access-date=1 September 2018}}</ref> Hannan has been referred to as a "British nationalist" and "British Gaullist".<ref name=nationalist>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/britains-new-gaullists|title=Britain's new Gaullists|first=Philip|last=Collins}}</ref> In a debate prior to the EU Referendum in Great Britain, Hannan said "Being a nation means that we are not just a random set of individuals born to a different random set of random individuals. It imposes on us a duty to keep intact the freedoms that we were lucky enough to inherit from our parents and pass them on securely to the next generation."<ref name=nationalism2>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.acton.org/archives/87557-daniel-hannan-on-the-conservative-case-for-brexit.html|title=Daniel Hannan on the Conservative Case for Brexit|date=28 June 2016|website=Acton Institute PowerBlog}}</ref> He advocates an affinity of "English-speaking nations" which share "[[Anglosphere]] characteristics".<ref name=anglosphere>{{cite news|title=The World of English Freedoms: It's no accident that the English-speaking nations are the ones most devoted to law and individual rights, writes Daniel Hannan|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-of-english-freedoms-1384548853|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|date=15 November 2013|access-date=1 September 2018}}</ref>

After British [[Labour party (UK)|Labour party]] leader [[Jeremy Corbyn]] suggested<ref name="Corbyn vows to return the Marbles to Greece">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/corbyn-return-elgin-marbles-greece-british-museum-a8381681.html |title=Corbyn vows to return Elgin Marbles to Greece if he becomes prime minister |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref> that the [[Elgin Marbles]] be returned to [[Athens]], Hannan criticised Corbyn for "national [[wikt:masochism|masochism]]", writing in [[ConservativeHome]] that this confirms the view that Corbyn will "always and everywhere back another country against his own".<ref name=parthenon>{{Cite web|url=https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2018/06/daniel-hannan-on-the-elgin-marbles-as-on-everything-else-corbyns-assumption-is-that-britain-is-always-in-the-wrong.html|title=Daniel Hannan: On the Elgin Marbles, as on everything else, Corbyn's assumption is that Britain Is Always in the Wrong|website=Conservative Home|date=7 June 2018 }}</ref> Hannan similarly criticised former Downing Street press secretary [[Alastair Campbell]] for "cheering for the other side" after Campbell retweeted positions of Irish [[Taoiseach]] [[Leo Varadkar]] on social media while Campbell, writing in [[The New European]], suggested that Hannan was "claiming a monopoly on patriotism."<ref name=traitor>{{Cite news|title=Don't call me a traitor, Farridge|url=https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/don-t-call-me-a-traitor-farridge-1-5292773|author=Alastair Campbell|publisher=The New European|access-date=2 September 2018|archive-date=2 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902155023/https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/don-t-call-me-a-traitor-farridge-1-5292773}}</ref> In a May 2012 interview to [[Mihail Neamțu]], Hannan praised [[Margaret Thatcher]] for her refusal to accept "that our glory days were gone and that everything was irreversible", referring to the decline of the [[British Empire]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Neamțu |first=Mihail |date=19 May 2012 |title=Interviu cu Daniel Hannan, parlamentar european: "Europa riscă un faliment iminent" |url=https://hotnews.ro/interviu-cu-daniel-hannan-parlamentar-european-europa-risca-un-faliment-iminent-638099 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250815083553/https://hotnews.ro/interviu-cu-daniel-hannan-parlamentar-european-europa-risca-un-faliment-iminent-638099 |archive-date=15 August 2025 |access-date=15 August 2025 |work=[[HotNews]]}}</ref>

Journalist [[Philip Collins (journalist)|Philip Collins]], in [[Prospect (magazine)|Prospect Magazine]], writes "Hannan has the constant tra-la-la effusiveness of a man forever on his way home from [[Evening Prayer (Anglican)|choral evensong]] at an
[[Colleges of the University of Oxford|Oxford college]]. There is a sense from all of them of living out a caricature. None of them thinks they have signed up for the narrow version of nationalism written in blood."<ref name=nationalist/>

===Electoral reform===
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Hannan argues in his writings and in the media (for example, during an appearance on ''[[Question Time (TV series)|Question Time]]'' on [[BBC]] television on 28 May 2009) for [[Popular initiative|ballot initiatives]] (whereby electors can directly enact legislation as happens in [[Switzerland]]), a power of [[Recall election|recall]] (whereby a sitting Member of Parliament can be forced to submit to re-election if enough of the local electorate support this), fixed term parliaments, local and national [[referendums]], [[open primary|open primaries]] and the abolition of [[party lists]]. He is also an advocate of [[Single Transferable Vote]] as a replacement for the UK's [[First-past-the-post voting|First Past The Post]] system of voting.

===Economic policy===
Hannan wrote in March 2011, criticizing [[2011 United Kingdom anti-austerity protests|anti-austerity protesters]], stating they "have decided to indulge their penchant for empty, futile, self-righteous indignation". He remarked, "After 'No Cuts!' the marchers' favourite slogan was 'Fairness!' All right, then...How about being fair to our children, whom we have freighted with a debt unprecedented in peacetime?"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100081436/march-for-the-alternative-what-alternative|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110428150615/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100081436/march-for-the-alternative-what-alternative/|archive-date=28 April 2011|title='March for the Alternative'? WHAT alternative?|first=Daniel|last=Hannan|date=26 March 2011|access-date=27 March 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

A supporter of the 'leave' campaign in the 2016 Brexit vote,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/daniel-hannan-survives-near-wipeout-of-conservatives-in-european-parliament-elections|title=Daniel Hannan survives near-wipeout of Conservatives in European Parliament elections|date=2019-05-27|website=Washington Examiner|language=en|access-date=2019-09-13}}</ref> Hannan writes regularly about the United Kingdom's future international trade relationship once it leaves the EU.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://hannan.co.uk|title=Daniel Hannan|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref> In September 2017, he became the founding president of the [[Initiative for Free Trade|Institute for Free Trade (IFT)]],<ref name="ifreetrade.org">{{Cite web|title=IFT|url=http://www.ifreetrade.org/about|access-date=25 January 2018|website=IFT}}</ref> a free-market think tank based in London. Following the creation of the UK Government's [[Department for International Trade]] (DIT) to prepare for international trading arrangements after Brexit, the IFT states its aims as filling the gap in UK-based research and expertise on trade issues.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifreetrade.org/about|title=IFT|website=IFT|access-date=2018-08-26}}</ref> [[Chuka Umunna]] has described the organisation as "fanatical hard Brexit-supporting ideologues".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-fee-hard-brexit-event-foreign-office-ift-daniel-hannan-a8223971.html|title=Boris Johnson under fire for waiving £6,000 fee for hard Brexit event at Foreign Office|work=The Independent|access-date=2018-08-26|language=en-GB}}</ref>

The IFT briefly changed its name to "Initiative for Free Trade" after it emerged that permission to use the title "Institute", which is protected by law, had not been granted by [[Companies House]] and the [[Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy|Business Secretary]]. However, in Summer 2018, the name was restored. The IFT advisory board<ref name=":4" /> includes prominent Brexit advocates such as former Australian Prime Minister [[Tony Abbott]] and former Home Secretary [[Michael Howard]].

Hannan has suggested that the UK adopt a globally [[Free trade|free-trading]] policy after Brexit,<ref name=":2" /> and has suggested that the UK should join the [[Trans-Pacific Partnership|trans-pacific partnership]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/01/07/strange-counter-intuitive-may-seem-britains-trading-future-lies|title=Strange and counter-intuitive as it may seem, Britain's trading future lies across the Pacific|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=29 January 2018|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Trade experts have routinely criticised such a position for ignoring the impracticality of creating as close trading relationships as those the UK already has as a member of the single market.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/ebdf2ecf-c552-486b-a1c3-2e272efcd856|title=International Trade Committee Proceedings|date=8 May 2019|website=Parliament|access-date=17 May 2019}}</ref>

Hannan is on the International Board<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.studentsforliberty.org/team/#DIRECTORS|title=Team |work=Students for Liberty|access-date=20 March 2018}}</ref> of [[Students for Liberty]], a non-profit group operating globally to encourage classical liberalism and liberal economics.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

===Foreign policy===
Hannan has a 'deep admiration' of the United States,<ref name="The war drums boom">{{cite news|title=The war drums boom in Britain|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/bagehot/2011/03/crisis_libya_0|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=18 March 2011|access-date=16 December 2011}}</ref> and describes himself as an [[Atlanticist]] with positive views of the United States as well as other nations of the [[Anglosphere]]. Hannan claims to be supportive of free trade, arguing that the European Union blocks trade with countries such as [[China]], [[India]] and [[Ethiopia]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ft.com/content/6d4a444a-36f5-11e6-a780-b48ed7b6126f |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210/https://www.ft.com/content/6d4a444a-36f5-11e6-a780-b48ed7b6126f |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Free Britain to trade with the world|date=21 June 2016|website=Financial Times|access-date=8 November 2017}}</ref>
[[File:Daniel Hannan MEP at CPAC 2012.jpg|left|thumb|330x330px|Daniel Hannan at the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]], 2012.]]
He opposed the [[2003 invasion of Iraq]] undertaken during the [[premiership of Tony Blair]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/3676691/Are_we_losing_in_Afghanistan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090723183504/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/3676691/Are_we_losing_in_Afghanistan/|archive-date=23 July 2009|title=Are we losing in Afghanistan?|date=30 March 2008|access-date=7 November 2010|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref> He opposed British intervention in Libya.<ref name="The war drums boom"/>

Hannan has proposed that British foreign policy pivot away from the European Union towards the United States and the Commonwealth.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11644904/A-vision-of-Britain-outside-the-EU-confident-successful-and-free.html|title=A vision of Britain outside the EU – confident, successful and free|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 June 2015|access-date=29 January 2018|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

He endorsed [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|then-Democratic candidate]] [[Barack Obama]] for [[POTUS|President]] on 18 October 2008 against [[John McCain]]. He stated that a McCain presidency would mean an "imperial overstretch", particularly arguing that the U.S. should have been preparing to leave Iraq immediately.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/5484919/Why_this_conservative_is_for_Barack_Obama|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724180447/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/5484919/Why_this_conservative_is_for_Barack_Obama/|archive-date=24 July 2009|title=Why this conservative is for Barack Obama|date=18 October 2008|work=The Daily Telegraph}}</ref>

Hannan regretted his endorsement, which he called in his blog his "single most unpopular post" in his [[weblog|blogging]] career, and backed [[2012 United States presidential election|Mitt Romney in 2012]]. He argued, "Any American reader who wants to know where Obamification will lead should spend a week with me in the European Parliament. I'm working in your future and, believe me, you won't like it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sanctepater.com/2010/06/telegraphs-hannan-i-admit-it-i-was.html|title=Telegraph's Hannan: "I admit it: I was wrong to have supported Barack Obama"|website=sanctepater.com|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref>

In the 2016 United States presidential election, Hannan argued that both main parties had put forward unfit candidates, and urged Americans to vote for the [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]], [[Gary Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-brexiteer-says-says-he-would-have-voted-for-us-presidential-candidate-who-didn-t-know-what-a7411446.html|title=Tory Brexiteer says he would have voted for US candidate who didn't know what Aleppo was|date=11 November 2016|work=The Independent|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref>

===Social policy===
Hannan is opposed to what he considers to be "[[victimless crime]]s", and he favours drug decriminalisation: "I'd start with [[Cannabis (drug)|cannabis]], and if that worked I wouldn't in principle be against decriminalising heroin."<ref name="the Tory Eurosceptic MEP whom Labour loves to hate"/>

===Health care===
Hannan has frequently been critical of England's [[National Health Service (England)|National Health Service]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/9407633/Americans_Dont_copy_the_British_healthcare_system|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815111455/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/9407633/Americans_Dont_copy_the_British_healthcare_system/|archive-date=15 August 2009|title=Americans! Don't copy the British healthcare system!|publisher=Blogs.telegraph.co.uk|date=6 April 2009|access-date=14 August 2009|location=London}}</ref> He has claimed the NHS has left Britain with low survival rates for cancers and strokes, a high risk of becoming more ill in hospital, and with constant waiting lists. He remarked on American television at a time when the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] was being debated that he "wouldn't wish it [the NHS] on anyone". [[David Cameron]], who had said that his priorities were "three letters: NHS", distanced himself from Hannan's remarks as "some rather eccentric points of view".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/15360859|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120714204417/http://news.sky.com/home/politics/article/15360859|archive-date=14 July 2012|title=Cameron: 'NHS Is Our Number One Priority'|work=Sky News|date=14 August 2009|access-date=25 April 2010}}<br />- {{cite web|url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/nasty-tories-beat-retreat-on-hunting-and-spending-cuts-6922630.html|title='Nasty Tories' beat retreat on hunting and spending cuts|website=Thisislondon.co.uk|access-date=14 August 2009}}</ref>

Writing in ''The Telegraph'', Hannan said of the media storm provoked by his comments:{{blockquote|On a visit to the US, I was asked by an interviewer whether I would recommend a British-style health-care model, paid for out of general taxation. I replied that all three parties were devoted to the NHS, and that it had public support (although I added that this was at least partly the result of the inaccurate belief that free health care for the poor is a unique attribute of the British system). But I didn't want to dissemble: I have for years argued that Britain would be better off with a [[Healthcare in Singapore|Singapore-style system of personal health-care]] accounts. So I cautioned against nationalisation, citing international league tables on survival rates and waiting times.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/6103235/There-is-no-harm-in-agreeing-to-disagree.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=There is no harm in agreeing to disagree Let's return to the good old days when MPs didn't always toe the party line, says Daniel Hannan.|date=28 August 2009|access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>}}

he also said:<blockquote>we seem to have lost the notion that a backbencher speaks for himself. I like David Cameron, and want him to be Prime Minister, not least so that Britain stops racking up debt. But the idea that I therefore agree with him on every issue is, when you think about it, silly.<ref name="telegraph.co.uk"/>

</blockquote>

In 2015, writing for ''[[The Washington Examiner]]'', Hannan claimed the popular support for the NHS in the UK was a consequence of the wider public being "passively conscripted" by a "knot of hardline leftists" like those who had harassed his mother after he criticised the NHS. He told his readers "This is your last chance to strangle Obamacare at birth; flunk it, and you won't get another."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/kill-obamacare-or-u.s.-healthcare-will-suffer-same-fate-as-britain/article/2561140|title=Kill Obamacare, or U.S. healthcare will suffer same fate as Britain|date=9 March 2015 |access-date=9 September 2016}}</ref>

===Enoch Powell===
Hannan provoked criticism in August 2009 when it emerged that he had praised the Conservative politician [[Enoch Powell]] as "somebody who understood the importance of national democracy, who understood why you need to live in an independent country and what that meant, as well as being a free marketeer and a small-government Conservative."<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6095533/Daniel-Hannan-risks-angering-David-Cameron-by-praising-Enoch-Powell.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=Daniel Hannan risks angering David Cameron by praising Enoch Powell|first=Rosa|last=Prince|date=26 August 2009|access-date=30 April 2010}}<br />- {{cite web|url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5289796/daniel-hannan-and-enoch-powell-spectacular-media-stupidity-guaranteed.thtml|title=Daniel Hannan & Enoch Powell: Spectacular Media Stupidity Guaranteed|work=The Spectator|date=26 August 2009|access-date=7 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830051935/http://www.spectator.co.uk/alexmassie/5289796/daniel-hannan-and-enoch-powell-spectacular-media-stupidity-guaranteed.thtml|archive-date=30 August 2009}}</ref>

Hannan nonetheless disagrees with Powell's most famous policy view, his anti-immigration stance, stating, "For what it's worth, I think Enoch Powell was wrong on immigration... Being an immigrant myself, I have particular cause to be grateful for Britain's understated cosmopolitanism."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/3677651/Journalists_magic_word|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090720035924/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/3677651/Journalists_magic_word/|archive-date=20 July 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=Journalists' magic word|date=6 November 2007|access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>

Writing on ''The Telegraph'' website, Hannan said: "I'm surprised that no one has picked up on the thing that I most admire about Enoch Powell, namely his tendency to ignore conventional wisdom and think things through from first principles. Like [[Rowan Williams]], he always did his hearers the courtesy of addressing them as intelligent adults. Both men regularly got into trouble in consequence, either because they were genuinely misunderstood or because their detractors affected to misunderstand them. Neither responded by dumbing down. That, in politics, takes a special kind of integrity."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100007818/down-with-collective-responsibility|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090830194708/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100007818/down-with-collective-responsibility/|archive-date=30 August 2009|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=Down with collective responsibility|date=28 August 2009|access-date=30 April 2010}}</ref>

===Chequers proposal===
The government's policy on the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union that the Cabinet had discussed at Chequers was published as a [[White Paper]] on 12 July 2018<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-future-relationship-between-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union|title=The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union|website=GOV.UK|date=17 July 2018 |language=en|access-date=2018-08-26}}</ref> for debate in the House of Commons the following week.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2018-07-18/debates/5FA5E9E4-A4CD-42B4-8CA6-20FE6406A03B/FutureRelationshipBetweenTheUKAndTheEU|title=Future Relationship Between the UK and the EU – Hansard|website=hansard.parliament.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-26}}</ref> In July 2018, Hannan wrote in his ''[[The Sunday Telegraph|Telegraph]]'' column regarding the Government's Chequers Proposal.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/07/14/theresa-mays-brexit-plan-embarrassing-climbdown-would-vote-nonetheless/|title=Theresa May's Brexit plan is an embarrassing climbdown, but I would vote for it nonetheless|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|date=2018-07-14|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2018-08-26|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> Distinct from the Government's position and from that of the [[European Research Group|ERG]], Hannan argued that [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MPs]] should vote for the proposal despite its shortcomings, so long as it is not "watered down further". Summarising, he wrote that "The question is not whether the White Paper is ideal, but whether an imperfect departure is better than either a hostile breakdown or a more subservient relationship".<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

He claimed that with Chequers, the UK Government was begging for the kind of deal the EU has with Moldova and Albania, who themselves only sought as a transitional arrangement towards full membership. Writing on the contents of the White Paper, Hannan claimed that "There is a good reason to accept EU standards on goods rather than services: half our goods exports go to the EU, but only 37 per cent of our services."<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He also stated that since most goods standards are set at a global level, the concession to maintain EU standards on goods makes sense.<ref name=":3" />

===UKIP===
In spring 2012, Hannan suggested in a ''Daily Telegraph'' article that an accommodation be made between the Conservative Party and the [[UK Independence Party]] (UKIP),<ref name="2012 UKIP Tory">{{Cite web|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|date=24 May 2012|title=A deal with UKIP is preferable to one with the Lib Dems|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100160250/most-conservatives-would-prefer-a-deal-with-ukip-to-one-with-the-libdems|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526001559/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100160250/most-conservatives-would-prefer-a-deal-with-ukip-to-one-with-the-libdems/|archive-date=26 May 2012|website=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=7 December 2014}}</ref> and would be preferable to one with the Liberal Democrats.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hannan|first=Daniel|date=3 May 2013|title=A Conservative–Ukip coalition might come sooner than you think|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100215244/a-conservative-ukip-coalition-might-come-sooner-than-you-think|website=telegraph.co.uk|access-date=7 December 2014|archive-date=10 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210152046/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100215244/a-conservative-ukip-coalition-might-come-sooner-than-you-think/}}<br />- {{cite web|title=Leaders set to review EU's agenda after Eurosceptic surge|url=http://www.itv.com/news/update/2014-05-26/conservative-mep-calls-for-electoral-pact-with-ukip/|work=ITV News|date=26 May 2014|access-date=8 December 2014}}<br />- {{Cite news|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100273336/at-the-moment-of-our-victory-we-eurosceptics-seem-determined-to-throw-it-all-away|title=The moment of our victory, we Eurosceptics seem determined to throw it all away|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=26 May 2014|access-date=14 November 2014|archive-date=29 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129015452/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100273336/at-the-moment-of-our-victory-we-eurosceptics-seem-determined-to-throw-it-all-away/}}</ref>

===Good Friday Agreement===
Writing in ''The Daily Telegraph'', Hannan has argued that while the [[Good Friday Agreement]] was "often spoken about in quasi-religious terms … its flaws have become clearer over time."<ref name="GFAG">{{cite news |last=Jack |first=Ian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/23/good-friday-agreement-irish-brexit-northern-ireland |title=The Good Friday agreement is under attack. Can we really risk ditching it? |work=The Guardian |date=2018-02-23 |access-date=2018-09-01 }}</ref> Hannan's account of the Good Friday Agreement has been criticised as factually inaccurate<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.joe.ie/news/brexit-good-friday-agreement-616830|title=Brexiteers continue to spread their lies about the Good Friday Agreement|website=JOE.ie|date=20 February 2018 }}</ref> and reckless.<ref name="irish">{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-northern-ireland-simon-coveney-good-friday-agreement-peace-process-border-a8219536.html|title=Irish government attacks 'reckless' Brexiteers for gambling with Northern Ireland peace process|date=20 February 2018|website=The Independent}}</ref>

===Disputed statement about Fianna Fáil===
In a January 2019 article for ''The Daily Telegraph'', Hannan wrote that Irish political party [[Fianna Fáil]] "won every Irish election" between 1932 and 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=The EU offers its members a terrible choice: integration or democracy |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/01/13/eu-offers-members-terrible-choice-integration-democracy/ |first=Daniel |last=Hannan |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=13 January 2019}}</ref> Fianna Fáil did receive the highest proportion of the vote out of any party at every election during those years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ark.ac.uk/elections/gdala.htm|title=Dail Elections since 1918|website=www.ark.ac.uk}}</ref> However, it came first in elections in said period, but failed to form the government in six of those elections.

Hannan's statement led to online mockery in March 2019; on [[Twitter]], some of those making fun of Hannan's statement used the [[hashtag]] "#HannanIrishHistory" to post incorrect facts about Irish history.<ref name=kelly>Kelly, Aoife (20 March 2019) [https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/banter/trending/irish-people-are-trolling-a-uk-politician-with-hilarious-alternative-takes-on-irish-history-37933400.html Irish people are trolling a UK politician with hilarious 'alternative' takes on Irish history] in [[Irish Independent]]. Retrieved 21 March 2019</ref> Hannan, who is himself part Ulster Catholic<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100043608/david-cameron-was-right-to-apologise-bloody-sunday-diminished-us-all/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617233205/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100043608/david-cameron-was-right-to-apologise-bloody-sunday-diminished-us-all/|archive-date=17 June 2010|title=David Cameron was right to apologise: Bloody Sunday diminished us all – Telegraph Blogs|date=17 June 2010}}</ref> responded to the mockery by writing on Twitter, "I managed a Double First in Modern History from Oxford. One of the things I was taught is that historians necessarily have different takes on the same events. Please try to accept that yours is not the only interpretation."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2019/mar/21/brexit-latest-news-eu-summit-article-50-extension-theresa-may-appeal-to-nation-backfires-as-mps-accuse-her-of-stoking-hate-politics-live?page=with:block-5c939044e4b0a5422e638e31#block-5c939044e4b0a5422e638e31 Brexit: Macron says UK heading for no deal if MPs defy May, as PM arrives in Brussels – Politics live] in ''The Guardian'', 21 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019</ref>

=== COVID-19 pandemic ===
Hannan argued throughout the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] that the [[SARS-CoV-2|COVID-19 virus]] was not as serious to the general population as was widely believed. He was very critical of the [[British government response to the COVID-19 pandemic|UK government's response]] to the pandemic, arguing against restrictions on public mobility. Hannan joined other high-profile critics, known as 'lockdown sceptics', such as [[Jonathan Sumption, Lord Sumption|Lord Sumption]] and [[Toby Young]], in arguing that the full restrictive lockdown would have serious negative consequences, as a result of restrictions on civil liberties, locking down the population, and stalling the economy. He first expressed this view in February 2020 in an article he wrote in the website [[ConservativeHome]], and stuck to it consistently through the lockdown.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Geoghegan|first1=Peter|last2=Fitzgerald|first2=Mary|date=18 May 2020|title=The 'lockdown sceptics' want a culture war, with experts as the enemy|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/18/lockdown-sceptics-coronavirus-brexit|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Hannan speaks English, French and Spanish.<ref name="Dod's 135">{{cite book|title=European Companion|publisher=Vacher Dod Publishing|year=2002|isbn=978-0-905702-37-7|location=London|page=135}}</ref>

Hannan is a supporter of [[bullfighting]], and has written several articles in the Telegraph and elsewhere promoting the activity.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-06-26 |title=The death of a matador will, paradoxically, make bullfighting more popular |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-death-of-a-matador-will-paradoxically-make-bullfighting-more-popular |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=Washington Examiner |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Daniel Hannan: In praise of bullfighting |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/1537378/Daniel-Hannan-In-praise-of-bullfighting.html |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=19 December 2006 }}</ref> In 2004, he wrote for the Telegraph that he had attended a training course with a California-based bullfighting school in which he participated in a tienta, which aims to ascertain if cows can be used to breed fighting bulls for the ring.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2004-08-04 |title=Telegraph {{!}} Arts {{!}} When the Tory met the toro |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/08/03/ftmp03.xml |access-date=2023-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040804223607/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/08/03/ftmp03.xml |archive-date=4 August 2004 }}</ref> Additionally, he has written for the specialist English-language bullfighting publication La Divisa, published by Club Taurino of London, a UK-based association for 'aficionados.'<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-06-25 |title=Without the bulls, there is no drama |url=http://www.ctol.org/ladivisaarticles/La%20Divisa%20Malaga.htm |access-date=2023-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625114523/http://www.ctol.org/ladivisaarticles/La%20Divisa%20Malaga.htm |archive-date=25 June 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-11-08 |title=France |url=http://www.ctol.org/ladivisaarticles/france.htm |access-date=2023-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091108060414/http://www.ctol.org/ladivisaarticles/france.htm |archive-date=8 November 2009 }}</ref> In April 2022, the Evening Standard reported that he had written articles about this topic for The Critic magazine under the pseudonym of Christopher North.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-08 |title=Londoner's Diary: Hannan takes the bull by the horns ... in secret |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/daniel-hannan-bullfighting-column-secret-b993265.html |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-06 |title=Blood and beauty {{!}} Christopher North |url=https://thecritic.co.uk/blood-and-beauty/ |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=The Critic Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref>

==Awards and distinctions==
In 2009, Hannan was awarded the [[Bastiat Prize]] for Online Journalism for his ''Telegraph'' blog.<ref>{{cite news|title=Telegraph columnist and blogger Daniel Hannan awarded online prize|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6437795/Telegraph-columnist-and-blogger-Daniel-Hannan-awarded-online-prize.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091030074944/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/6437795/Telegraph-columnist-and-blogger-Daniel-Hannan-awarded-online-prize.html|archive-date=30 October 2009|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 October 2009|access-date=16 December 2011}}</ref>

He won the award for Speech of the Year at the 2009 [[Spectator Awards]], for his [[Gordon Brown]] speech in the European Parliament.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6554667/Lord-Mandelson-named-Politician-of-the-Year.html|title=Lord Mandelson named Politician of the Year|date=12 November 2009|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=16 December 2011}}<br />- {{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/8804388/The-Top-100-most-influential-people-on-the-Right-2011-50-26.html|title=The Top 100 most influential people on the Right 2011, 50–26|last1=Dale|first1=Iain|date=4 October 2011|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=16 December 2011|last2=Brivati|first2=Brian|author-link2 = Brian Brivati}}</ref>

He won the 2012 Columbia Award (Washington Policy Centre)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/events/detail/2012-annual-dinner-featuring-daniel-hannan-and-scott-rasmussen|title=2012 Annual Dinner, Featuring Daniel Hannan and Scott Rasmussen|website=www.washingtonpolicy.org|access-date=6 June 2018}},</ref> and the 2014 Paolucci Book Award ([[Intercollegiate Studies Institute]]).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/daniel-hannan-has-won-the-paolucci-book-award/90313|title=Daniel Hannan Has Won the Paolucci Book Award|website=www.adweek.com|date=18 August 2014|access-date=6 June 2018|archive-date=24 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180724123857/https://www.adweek.com/galleycat/daniel-hannan-has-won-the-paolucci-book-award/90313|url-status=dead}}</ref> Hannan was shortlisted for the [[Orwell Prize]] in blogging in 2011.<ref>{{cite news|title=Christopher Hitchens' memoir among Orwell Prize 2011 nominations|first1=James|last1=Lachno|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookprizes/8476557/Christopher-Hitchens-memoir-among-Orwell-Prize-2011-nominations.html|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|date=27 April 2011|access-date=23 January 2012}}</ref>

In 2014, Hannan won the Political Books Awards polemic of the year award, for his book ''How We Invented Freedom and Why It Matters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politicalbookawards.com/#awards|title=The Paddy Power Political Book Awards|access-date=29 July 2016}}</ref>

In 2017, Hannan received the [[Whittaker Chambers#Shortlived "Whittaker Chambers Award" (2017–2019)|Whittaker Chambers Award]] from the National Review Institute in person from [[John O'Sullivan (columnist)|John O'Sullivan]]. The award was opposed by the family of Whittaker Chambers; David Chambers, Whittaker's grandson, wrote that Whittaker would have supported a strong European Union as a counterweight to "Russia's new [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], [[Vladimir Putin]]."<ref name=WSJ-Award>
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==Bibliography==
{{incomplete list|date=January 2016}}

===Books===
* {{cite book|author=Hannan, Daniel|title=Time for a fresh start in Europe|location=London|publisher=Bow Publications|year=1993}}
* Rodney Atkinson, Norris McWhirter, Daniel Hannan (1994) ''Treason at Maastricht: The Destruction of the British Constitution''. Compuprint, Newcastle upon Tyne.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Treason at Maastricht: the destruction of the British Constitution {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/32926776 |access-date=2023-03-14 |website=www.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref>
* {{cite book|title=Towards 1996: Britain in a Multi-Speed Europe|year=1994|publisher=Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies|location=London|isbn=978-0-907967-54-5}}
* {{cite book|title=A Guide to the Amsterdam Treaty|year=1997|publisher=European Research Group|location=London}}
* {{cite book|title=The Euro: Bad for Business|year=1998|publisher=European Research Group|location=London}}
* {{cite book|title=What if Britain Votes No?|year=2002}}
* {{cite book|title=The Case for EFTA|year=2004|publisher=Bruges Group|location=London|isbn=978-0-9547087-3-3}}
* {{cite book|title=Direct Democracy: An Agenda for a New Model Party|author-link=Douglas Carswell|year=2005|isbn=978-0-9550598-0-3|last=Carswell|first=Douglas|publisher=direct-democracy.Companyuk }}
* {{cite book|first2=Dan|last2=Hannan|first1=Douglas|last1=Carswell|title=The Plan: Twelve Months to Renew Britain|year=2008|publisher=Lulu.com|isbn=978-0-9559799-0-3}}{{self-published source|date=February 2020}}
* {{cite book|title=The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America|year=2010|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|isbn=978-0-06-195694-2}}
* {{cite book|title=Why America Must Not Follow Europe|year=2011|publisher=Encounter Books|location=New York|isbn= 978-1-59403-560-9}}
* {{cite book|title=A Doomed Marriage: Britain and Europe|year=2012|publisher=Notting Hill Editions|location=London|isbn=978-1-907-90322-9}}
* {{cite book|title=How We Invented Freedom & Why It Matters|year=2013|publisher=Head of Zeus|location=London|isbn=978-1-78185-753-3}} (published in the United States as {{cite book|title=Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World|year=2013|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|isbn=978-0-06-223175-8}})
* {{cite book | title = Why Vote Leave | year = 2016 | publisher = Head of Zeus | location = London | isbn = 978-1-78497-710-8 }}
* {{cite book | title = What Next: How to Get the Best from Brexit | year = 2016 | publisher = Head of Zeus | location = London | isbn = 978-1-78669-193-4 }}

==References==
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* [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/daniel-hannan/ Articles] at [[The Daily Telegraph#Website|''The Telegraph'']]
* [http://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/4555/Daniel_HANNAN.html Profile] at European Parliament website
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