Peter Lilley

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Peter Lilley (2014)

Peter Bruce Lilley, Baron Lilley (born August 23, 1943 in North London ) is a British politician ( Conservative Party ).

life and career

Lilley, whose father worked in the BBC 's HR department , was born in Hayes , Kent . He attended Dulwich College and Clare College at the University of Cambridge , where he studied economics and physics . His fellow students included Kenneth Clarke , Michael Howard and Norman Lamont . Prior to being elected to Parliament, he was an energy analyst for the stockbroker W. Greenwell & Co. in the City of London .

He was unsuccessful in the election in October 1974 in the constituency of Haringey, Tottenham . Lilley was elected to the House of Commons for St Albans in 1983. From 1983 to 1984 he was Secretary of the Conservative Backbench Energy Committee and a member of the Treasury Select Committee . In 1984 he was one of two Parliamentary State Secretaries from Irwin Bellow as Minister of State for Local Government ( Local Government ) and William Walde as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State . From 1984 to 1987 he was Secretary of State at Nigel Lawson as Chancellor of the Exchequer . From 1987 to 1989 he was Economic Secretary to the Treasury , and from 1989 to 1990 he was Financial Secretary to the Treasury .

Lilley was cabinet minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major . In 1990 he was accepted into the Privy Council . From July 1990 to April 1992 he was Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills , succeeding Nicholas Ridley , who had to resign because of anti-German remarks. After the 1992 election he became Secretary of State for Social Security from April that year and remained so until May 1997. From May 1, 1997, he represented the constituencies of Hitchin and Harpenden as a result of a restructuring . Lilley was a member of the shadow cabinet of the now in opposition Conservatives. There he was shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1997 to 1998 . From 1998 to 1999 he was deputy opposition leader ( Deputy Leader of the Opposition ) with responsibility for the development of party politics.

He gives economic policy , the EU , educational issues and interethnic relations as his political interests . Lilley mentions France as a state of particular interest . He belonged to several party groups . From 1973 to 1975 he was chairman of the Bow Group . From 1979 to 1983 he was Consultant Director of the Conservative Research Department . In June 1997 he ran for the election of the chairman of the Conservative Party and was elected one of the five vice chairmen.

Lilley sparked a controversial discussion in his party and among the British public in 2001 when he advocated the legalization of cannabis in a brochure by the Social Market Foundation . In 2005, Lilley published a report for the Bow Group , a center-right think tank , which was very critical of the government's plans to introduce ID cards . When David Cameron was elected chairman of the Tories in December 2005, Lilley was named chairman of the Globalization and Global Poverty policy group . He held this office from 2006. In the 2010 general election , he achieved a clear majority in his constituency with 54.6%.

Lilley did not run in the 2017 general election . On June 18, 2018, he was promoted to Life Peer as Baron Lilley , of Offa in the County of Hertfordshire, and thereby became a member of the House of Lords .

Trivia

Lilley appeared on two occasions as a singer at Conservative party conferences. In 1992, during his time as minister at the Department of Social Security , he sang an ironic paraphrase from the song "I have a little list" from the operetta The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan , in which he condemned, among other things, people who unfairly received social benefits State claim. In September 2007, the former interior minister called David Blunkett in The Daily Politics , a broadcast on BBC Two , this musical performance Lilleys as one of his favorite moments at conferences.

In 1998, Lilley changed the lyrics of Land of Hope and Glory and sang Land of Chattering Classes . He condemned the fact that, in his view , New Labor was giving up British values.

family

He is married to Gail, an artist.

Further offices and honors

Lilley became a fellow of the Institute of Petroleum in 1978 . Since 2002 he has been a member of the School of Management Advisory Board at the University of Southampton .

Publications

  • Do You Sincerely Want to Win? The security problem in Northern Ireland. 2nd revised edition. Bow Publications, London 1972, ISBN 0-900182-16-4 .
  • with Samuel Brittan : The Delusions of Incomes Policy. Maurice Temple Smith, London 1977, ISBN 0-85117-121-4 .
  • Two critics of Keynes, Friedman and Hayek. In: Robert Skidelsky (Ed.): The End of the Keynesian Era. Essays on the Disintegration of the Keynesian political Economy. Macmillan, London 1977, ISBN 0-333-21306-8 , 1977, pp. 25-32.
  • Winning the Welfare Debate (= Social market foundation. Occasional Paper. No. 11). The Social Market Foundation, London 1995, ISBN 1-874097-75-5 .
  • Patient power. Choice for a Better NHS (Arguments). Demos, London 2000, ISBN 1-84180-035-X .
  • Common Sense on Cannabis. The Social Market Foundation, London 2001, ISBN 1-874097-88-7 .
  • Too Much of a Good Thing? Towards a balanced approach to immigration. Center for Policy Studies, London 2005, ISBN 1-903219-95-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lilley's call to legalize cannabis welcomed in: Daily Mail , accessed July 17, 2010
  2. ↑ ID cards - a dumb idea and dangerous too in: The Guardian, June 30, 2002
  3. ↑ Peter Lilley on the House of Commons website ( Memento of October 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Peter Lilley the latest MP to step down. ITV News , April 26, 2017, accessed April 26, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Your favorite Conference Clips in: BBC News, October 3, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Lilley, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lilley, Peter Bruce, Baron Lilley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Conservative Party politician, Member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH North London