House of Lords on 17 September 2020, and sits as a non-affiliated. He made his maiden speech on 23rd February 2022. Publications Biographer of Margaret Thatcher Following the death of Margaret Thatcher on 8 April 2013, during his appearance on the Question Time programme three days later, Moore criticised the BBC for giving too much publicity to the Thatcher critics who were celebrating her death. Menzies Campbell accused Moore of suffering from "a persecution complex". On 17 April, the day of Thatcher's funeral, Moore said that parts of the country showing enmity were considered "relatively less important". Moore left his post as editor of The Daily Telegraph in 2003 to spend more time writing Thatcher's authorised biography. Always intended to be published after her death, the first volume, titled Not For Turning, was published in 2013 shortly after her funeral. (The US edition of this initial volume was retitled Margaret Thatcher, The Authorized Biography: From Grantham to the Falklands.) Moore does not know exactly why he was chosen to write the biography, but believes it was probably because of his age, and because he was familiar with all the main characters of Thatcher's time in government, without being especially strongly linked to any one of them. He was selected by Thatcher, without his prior knowledge, out of a list of names which were presented to her. The first volume of Moore's three-volume work received the £5,000 Elizabeth Longford Prize in 2014. Personal life Moore married Caroline Baxter (whom he had met at university) during 1981 in Tunbridge Wells. The couple have two children. Moore converted to Roman Catholicism following the Church of England's decision to allow the ordination of women as priests in 1992. His wife, a former English don at Peterhouse, Cambridge, chose not to make such a move and remains an Anglican. Moore is the founder-chairman of The Rectory Society which is dedicated to preserving past and present parsonages. Moore is also a patron of the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales. Views Moore is a monarchist and says the monarchy "reaches parts politics cannot reach". He supported Brexit and has criticised the BBC's Brexit and climate change coverage. In The Spectator in 2018 he wrote that "religious freedom is central to all freedoms". In September 2020, Moore referred to Black Lives Matter as a "Marxist movement whose doctrines about white people are explicitly racist". Critic of