Peter Lilley
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The Right Honourable Peter Lilley MP |
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Lilley in 2014
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| Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party | |
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In office 11 June 1997 – 15 June 1999 |
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| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Succeeded by | Michael Portillo |
| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 11 June 1997 – 2 June 1998 |
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| Leader | William Hague |
| Preceded by | Kenneth Clarke |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Social Security | |
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In office 2 May 1997 – 11 June 1997 |
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| Leader | John Major |
| Preceded by | Harriet Harman |
| Succeeded by | Iain Duncan Smith |
| Secretary of State for Social Security | |
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In office 8 April 1992 – 2 May 1997 |
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| Prime Minister | John Major |
| Preceded by | Tony Newton |
| Succeeded by | Harriet Harman |
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President of the Board of Trade and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry |
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In office 14 July 1990 – 11 April 1992 |
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| Prime Minister |
Margaret Thatcher John Major |
| Preceded by | Nicholas Ridley |
| Succeeded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 24 July 1989 – 28 November 1990 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Norman Lamont |
| Succeeded by | Francis Maude |
| Economic Secretary to the Treasury | |
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In office 11 June 1987 – 24 July 1989 |
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| Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| Preceded by | Ian Stewart |
| Succeeded by | Richard Ryder |
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Member of Parliament for Hitchin and Harpenden St Albans (1983–1997) |
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Assumed office 9 June 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Victor Goodhew |
| Majority | 20,055 (36.2%) |
| Personal details | |
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23 August 1943 Hayes, Kent, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Gail |
| Alma mater | Clare 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.
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 natural sciences before switching to economics. 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.
Lilley was chairman of conservative think tank the Bow Group from 1973–75.
In October 1974 he fought the safe-Labour seat of Tottenham, being beaten by Norman Atkinson.
Having been selected and elected for St. Albans, a safe Conservative seat, in 1983, 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. Initially regarded as a right wing Thatcher loyalist, he privately told her her career was finished after she failed to win outright in the first round ballot of a leadership challenge, and subsequently urged her ultimate successor John Major to stand for election to succeed her.
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