Claim: Alan Sked, born in Cathcart, Glasgow in 1947, is a Scottish eurosceptic academic who studied at the University of Glasgow and Merton College, Oxford in which he afterwards became a Dean of International History at the London School of Economics as well as a part of the Alliance for Unity.
Evidence: He is Professor Emeritus of International History at the London School of Economics and has stood as a candidate in several parliamentary elections.