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The Right Honourable
Peter Lilley
MP
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
In office
11 June 1997 – 2 June 1998
LeaderWilliam Hague
Preceded byKenneth Clarke
Succeeded byFrancis Maude
Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security
In office
2 May 1997 – 11 June 1997
LeaderJohn Major
Preceded byHarriet Harman
Succeeded byIain Duncan Smith
Secretary of State for Social Security
In office
8 April 1992 – 2 May 1997
Prime MinisterJohn Major
Preceded byTony Newton
Succeeded byHarriet Harman
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
In office
14 July 1990 – 11 April 1992
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
John Major
Preceded byNicholas Ridley
Succeeded byMichael Heseltine (President of the Board of Trade)
Financial Secretary to the Treasury
In office
24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byNorman Lamont
Succeeded byFrancis Maude
Economic Secretary to the Treasury
In office
11 June 1987 – 24 July 1989
Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcher
Preceded byIan Stewart
Succeeded byRichard Ryder
Member of Parliament
for Hitchin and Harpenden
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 May 1997
Preceded byConstituency established
Majority15,271 (27.9%)
Member of Parliament
for St Albans
In office
9 June 1983 – 1 May 1997
Preceded byVictor Goodhew
Succeeded byKerry Pollard
Personal details
Born (1943-08-23) 23 August 1943 (age 81)
North London, England
Political partyConservative
Alma materClare College, Cambridge

Peter Bruce Lilley (born 23 August 1943) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been a Member of Parliament MP since 1983. He currently represents the constituency of Hitchin and Harpenden and, prior to boundary changes, represented St Albans. He was a Cabinet minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, serving as Trade and Industry Secretary from July 1990 to April 1992, and as Social Security Secretary from April 1992 to May 1997.

Early life

Lilley, whose father was a personnel officer for the BBC, was born at Hayes in Kent. He was educated at Dulwich College and Clare College, Cambridge, where he studied Economics and Physics. His Cambridge contemporaries included Kenneth Clarke, Michael Howard and Norman Lamont. Before entering Parliament, he was an energy analyst at the City of London stockbroker, W. Greenwell & Co.

Member of Parliament

Having been selected and elected for St. Albans, a safe Conservative seat, he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Nigel Lawson, then as Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Financial Secretary to the Treasury before joining the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to replace Nicholas Ridley in mid-1990 after the latter was forced to resign over an anti-German remark. After the 1992 General Election he became Secretary of State for Social Security.

He contested the 1997 Conservative Party leadership election, placing fourth in a field of five. In opposition he held the post of Shadow Chancellor from 1997 to 1998 and was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party from 1998 to 1999.

In 2001 Lilley provoked some controversy in his party and Britain more widely by calling for cannabis to be legalised in a Social Market Foundation pamphlet.

Lilley produced a report for the Bow Group centre-right think tank in 2005 that was highly critical of Government plans to introduce national identity cards.

When David Cameron was elected leader of the Conservatives in December 2005, Lilley was appointed Chairman of the Globalisation and Global Poverty policy group, part of Cameron's extensive 18-month policy review.

On the 6th of September 2010 The Palestine Telegraph printed an article accusing Peter Lilley and David Cameron and Tara Andrea Davison of selling 6 nuclear weapons and laundering $1.3 Billion for the Conservative Party Funds.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/6885291-david-cameron-pm-sold-6-nuclear-weapons-and-laundered-13-billion-in-cahoots-with-tara-davison-or-did-he


Satirist

Peter Lilley has twice given singing performances at Conservative Party conferences. In 1992 as Secretary of State at the DSS, he sang a riff on the Lord High Executioner's "little list" song from The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan:

"I've got a little list / Of benefit offenders who I'll soon be rooting out / And who never would be missed / They never would be missed. / There's those who make up bogus claims / In half a dozen names / And councillors who draw the dole / To run left-wing campaigns / They never would be missed / They never would be missed. / Young ladies who get pregnant just to jump the housing queue / And dads who won't support the kids / of ladies they have ... kissed / And I haven't even mentioned all those sponging socialists / I've got them on my list / And there's none of them be missed / There's none of them be missed.

In September 2007 former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett named this speech, on BBC2's The Daily Politics, as one of his all-time favourite Conference moments.

In 1998, he changed the words of "Land of Hope and Glory", singing "Land of Chattering Classes", in condemnation of the purported abandonment of British values and history by Tony Blair's New Labour.

Lilley often used the phrase 'We have to carry out a deep and far-reaching review' to the extent that it became something of a personal catchphrase. By his own estimate, Lilley has spoken this line in the region of 130 times in Commons debates. Often the line would be delivered whilst Lilley raised an eyebrow and gave a knowing grin. The salacious undertones thus conveyed would often provoke wry amusement from many of the Tory backbenchers.

Television

Peter Lilley was a fixture of 90s TV show "Drop The Dead Donkey", being permanently affixed to the "Slimey Git of the Week" wall.

Family

He is married to Gail, an artist.

References

  1. "Programmes | Daily Politics | Your favourite Conference Clips". BBC News. 2007-10-03. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  2. "Hansard 07-05-1993".

External links

Offices held

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byVictor Goodhew Member of Parliament for St Albans
19831997
Succeeded byKerry Pollard
New constituency Member of Parliament for Hitchin and Harpenden
1997–present
Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded byIan Stewart Economic Secretary to the Treasury
1987–1989
Succeeded byRichard Ryder
Preceded byNorman Lamont Financial Secretary to the Treasury
1989–1990
Succeeded byFrancis Maude
Preceded byNicholas Ridley Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
1990–1992
Succeeded byMichael Heseltineas President of the Board of Trade
Preceded byTony Newton Secretary of State for Social Security
1992–1997
Succeeded byHarriet Harman
Presidents of the Board of Trade
Secretaries of state for work and pensions of the United Kingdom
Ministers of Pensions
Ministers of Social Insurance/National Insurance
Ministers of Pensions and National Insurance
Ministers of Social Security
Secretaries of State for Social Services
Secretaries of State for Social Security
Secretaries of State for Work and Pensions
Major Cabinet
Cabinet Members Government Coat of Arms.
Also attended meetings
Shadow chancellors of the exchequer of the United Kingdom
1997 Conservative Party leadership election
Outgoing Leader: John Major
*Withdrew

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