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Peter Walker - Definition
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Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, PC (born 1932), was Conservative MP for Worcester between March 1961 and April 1992, and the founder of the Tory Reform Group. He was a close ally of Edward Heath, and refused to serve in Margaret Thatcher's Shadow Cabinet because he objected to her social and economic policies.

He rose very quickly through the ranks of the Conservative Party, and entered the Shadow Cabinet in 1965, and served as Secretary of State for the Environment (1970-72), President of the Board of Trade (1972-74), Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1979-83), Secretary of State for Energy (1983-87) and Secretary of State for Wales (1987-90).

Like Edward Heath, he is a Pro-European Conservative and is a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. Upon his retirement from Parliament in 1992, he was appointed a Life Peer, as Lord Walker of Worcester.

Preceded by:
— 		Secretary of State for the Environment
1970—1972 		Followed by:
Geoffrey Rippon
Preceded by:
John Davies 		President of the Board of Trade
1972—1974 		Followed by:
Peter Shore
Preceded by:
John Silkin 		Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
1979—1983 		Followed by:
Michael Jopling
Preceded by:
Nigel Lawson 		Secretary of State for Energy
1983—1987 		Followed by:
Cecil Parkinson
Preceded by:
Nicholas Edwards 		Secretary of State for Wales
1987—1990 		Followed by:
David Hunt

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