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Willy Bach, Baron Bach

The Right Honourable
The Lord Bach
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Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner
Assumed office
6 May 2016
Preceded by Clive Loader
Shadow Attorney General
In office
3 December 2014 – 14 September 2015
Leader Ed Miliband
Harriet Harman (Acting)
Preceded by Emily Thornberry
Succeeded by Catherine McKinnell
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
In office
5 October 2008 – 11 May 2010
Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Preceded by The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
Succeeded by Jonathan Djanogly
Minister of State for Defence Procurement
In office
9 June 2001 – 6 May 2005
Prime Minister Tony Blair
Preceded by Elizabeth Symons
Succeeded by The Lord Drayson
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
27 July 1998
Personal details
Born (1946-12-25) 25 December 1946 (age 70)
Political party Labour
Alma mater New College, Oxford

William "Willy" Stephen Goulden Bach, Baron Bach (born 25 December 1946), is a British Labour member of the House of Lords and was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice from 2008 to 2010. He resigned from the opposition front bench when he was elected the Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner on 6 May 2016.

Bach was educated at Westminster School before going up to New College, Oxford (MA), after which, in 1972, he was called to the Bar. He worked as a barrister, was a councillor in Leicester and Harborough, and became head of chambers at King Street Chambers in Leicester on the Midland Circuit in 1996.

Bach was the unsuccessful Labour parliamentary candidate for Gainsborough in 1979 and for Sherwood in both the 1983 and 1987 general elections.

On 27 July 1998, Bach was created a life peer, as Baron Bach, of Lutterworth in the County of Leicestershire, where he lives. He was appointed a Government Whip in the Lords in 1999, thereby enjoying the office as one of Her Majesty's Lords in Waiting.


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