Peter Shore
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The Right Honourable The Lord Shore of Stepney PC |
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| Shadow Leader of the House of Commons | |
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In office 31 October 1983 – 13 July 1987 |
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| Leader | Neil Kinnock |
| Preceded by | John Silkin |
| Succeeded by | Frank Dobson |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Trade and Industry | |
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In office 31 October 1983 – 26 October 1984 |
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| Leader | Neil Kinnock |
| Preceded by |
Peter Archer (Trade) Stanley Orme (Industry) |
| Succeeded by | John Smith |
| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 8 December 1980 – 31 October 1983 |
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| Leader | Michael Foot |
| Preceded by | Denis Healey |
| Succeeded by | Roy Hattersley |
| Shadow Foreign Secretary | |
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In office 14 July 1979 – 8 December 1980 |
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| Leader | Jim Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Francis Pym |
| Succeeded by | Denis Healey |
| Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment | |
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In office 4 May 1979 – 14 July 1979 |
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| Leader | Jim Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Succeeded by | Roy Hattersley |
| Secretary of State for the Environment | |
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In office 8 April 1976 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Jim Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Tony Crosland |
| Succeeded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Secretary of State for Trade | |
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In office 4 March 1974 – 8 April 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Peter Walker (Trade and Industry) |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Dell |
| Shadow Minister for Europe | |
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In office 19 October 1971 – 19 April 1972 |
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| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Harold Lever |
| Succeeded by | Michael Foot |
| Minister without Portfolio | |
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In office 6 October 1969 – 19 June 1970 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | George Thomson |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Drumalbyn |
| Secretary of State for Economic Affairs | |
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In office 29 August 1967 – 6 October 1969 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Michael Stewart |
| Succeeded by |
Position abolished Anthony Crosland (Minister of State) |
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Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Stepney Stepney (1964–1974) Stepney and Poplar (1974–1983) |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Stoker Edwards |
| Succeeded by | Constituency abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 May 1924 Great Yarmouth, England, UK |
| Died |
24 September 2001 (aged 77) London, England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Peter David Shore, Baron Shore of Stepney, PC (20 May 1924 – 24 September 2001) was a British Labour politician and former Cabinet Minister, noted in part for his opposition to the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community. His idiosyncratic left-wing nationalism led to comparison with the French politician Jean-Pierre Chevènement. He was described in an obituary by the Conservative journalist Patrick Cosgrave as "Between Harold Wilson and Tony Blair, the only possible Labour Party leader of whom a Conservative leader had cause to walk in fear" and, along with Enoch Powell, "the most captivating rhetorician of the age".
Born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Shore was the son of a Merchant Navy captain and was brought up in a middle-class environment. He attended the Quarry Bank Grammar School in Liverpool and, from there, went to King's College, Cambridge, to study history, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society with an elite membership. During the later stages of World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, spending most of his time in India.
He had specialised in political economy during part of his degree and joined the Labour Party in 1948. He spent the 1950s working for the party and, after two unsuccessful Parliamentary contests at St Ives in 1950 and Halifax in 1959, he was appointed as Head of the Labour Party's Research Department and took charge of the renewal of party policy following its third successive defeat in 1959. Shore was only briefly a follower of Hugh Gaitskell; his adherence to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1958 led to a breach in relations for several years.
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