Peter Snape, Baron Snape

The Lord Snape
Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East
In office 28 February 1974 – 7 June 2001
Preceded by	Constituency Established
Succeeded by	Tom Watson
Personal details
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour

Peter Charles Snape, Baron Snape (born 12 February 1942) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He served as Member of Parliament (MP) for West Bromwich East until he stood down in the 2001 election. He is the current Chairman of his hometown football club, , as well as a major shareholder in the club. Lord Snape became Vice-Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Speedway Racing in July 2015.

He once lived at Greenwood Gardens, Bredbury and was a railwayman and Bredbury and Romiley Urban District councillor representing Bredbury South ward. He was elected as Labour Member of Parliament for West Bromwich East in 1974, after which he moved to live in Buglawton. He retained links with the Bredbury area, serving for a time as a director of , which he is now once again as of 2010. He held a number of government posts.

He was the member who formally proposed Michael Martin to be the new Speaker in 2000. He stood down in the 2001 election and was created a life peer as Baron Snape, of Wednesbury in the County of West Midlands on 9 June 2004.

During the 1992 General Election campaign, Conservative MP Edwina Currie poured a glass of orange juice over Snape shortly after an edition of the Midlands-based debate show Central Weekend had finished airing. Speaking about the incident later, Currie said, "I just looked at my orange juice, and looked at this man from which this stream of abuse was emanating, and thought 'I know how to shut you up.'" A civil court (High Court action) led to compensation of £15,000 from Currie after she "falsely suggested in her memoirs that it happened after Snape had been 'drinking vodka in a club with cronies'."

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