Nick Tyrone is a journalist, novelist and writer who has published articles in The Spectator, Daily Express, The Independent and New Statesman. He has written several books including Dead Idol, ', and Politics is Murder. He has been described by Jon Rentoul in The Independent as a "waspish writer and natural troublemaker".
He was the Director of Operations and Finance as well as the Treasurer of the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign that in May 2011 sought (unsuccessfully) to change the UK voting system. Tyrone later told the BBC that the campaign once considered putting out inflatable replicas of MPs' bottoms for the public to "kick".
Tyrone went on to serve as Head of Partnerships and Public Affairs for the Electoral Reform Society, from 2011 to 2014. In contrast to the aims of Yes to Fairer Votes and the Electoral Reform Society, Tyrone revealed in 2016 that he opposed replacing the First-past-the-post (FPTP) voting system for Westminster elections, believing "... FPTP is necessary".
For a period, he was the Executive Director of Centreforum, the think tank most known for the book which later became the Education Policy Institute. He left to join British Influence in the wake of the Brexit referendum in 2016.
From 2016 to 2019 Tyrone served as Director General of the Red Tap Initiative, which aspired to âÂÂ⦠grasp the opportunities that Brexit will give us to cut red tape in sensible waysâÂÂ.
He was a known member of the Liberal Democrats from 2008 to 2016, having subsequently written articles criticising the party.
He is currently an Associate Fellow at the think tank Bright Blue.
Ahead of the 2015 General Election, Tyrone predicted that the Liberal Democrats would receive âÂÂ17 percentâ of the popular vote and that the vote share for the two largest parties appeared âÂÂon course for an all time lowâÂÂ. The two largest parties subsequently both increased their vote share, while the Liberal Democrats received 7.9%.
In 2015, Tyrone argued that fellow pro-Europeans should give their âÂÂ⦠gratitude to Nigel Farage for hanging around the British political scene just a little bit longerâ as he believed it would ensure âÂÂthe pro-Europeans winâÂÂ. In the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum a majority of votes were cast in favour of the UK leaving the European Union, which occurred in 2020.