Peter John Viggers (born March 13, 1938) is a lawyer and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is member of Parliament for Gosport, his home town, and was first elected in 1974. He served as a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, and was responsible for the selling off of various state assets. He left government in 1989, and has remained on the back-benches since.
In 2002 he made headlines by suggesting the European Union adopt a 'single european language' to cut down in translation costs.
greensignpost: Whatever his contributions to the House, Sir Peter Viggers will go down in history as "the duck island guy". But ac... http://bit.ly/5j9vjg
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vincentmoss: Still think Tory MP Peter Viggers' duck house is funniest expenses' story. But £20K bell tower is up there. http://tinyurl.com/yzbzjal
