Shane Frith

{{Short description|New Zealand politician and political activist}}

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Shane Frith is a New Zealand politician and political activist. He is director of the Brussels-based think tank New Direction. He was director of Progressive Vision, a classical liberal think tank in London,{{cite news |title=Ban all cars that do under 35mpg, ex-Shell boss says |first=Ben |last=Webster |newspaper=The Times |date=5 February 2008 }}{{cite news |title=Tesco boss is godfather of binge drinking, says MP |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/around-yorkshire/local-stories/tesco_boss_is_godfather_of_binge_drinking_says_mp_1_2483340 |newspaper=The Yorkshire Post |date=7 December 2007 |access-date=8 November 2011}} and managing director of the Stockholm Network, an international network of classical liberal think tanks.{{cite journal |last1=Cave |first1=Tamasin |date=March 2010 |title=Nurses for Reform |journal=British Medical Journal |volume=2010 |pages=340 |doi=10.1136/bmj.c1371 |s2cid=71541481 }}

In his native New Zealand, Frith was president of the Young Nationals from 1991 to 1995. Firth contested the Otara electorate in 1993. In 1996, he ran for Parliament in {{NZ electorate link|Auckland Central}} for the National Party in the 1996 general election, finishing third, behind Judith Tizard and Sandra Lee-Vercoe. Frith was chairman of the International Young Democrat Union from 2002 to 2004.