Peter Walker: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

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.