Peter Aldous | |
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Member of Parliament for Waveney | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
Preceded by | Bob Blizzard |
Majority | 18,002 (35.2%) |
Suffolk County Councillor for Halesworth | |
In office 7 June 2001 –5 May 2005 | |
Preceded by | Wendy Mawer |
Succeeded by | P Honeker |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Ipswich,Suffolk,England | 26 August 1961
Political party | Conservative |
Residence(s) | Halesworth,Suffolk |
Education | Harrow School |
Alma mater | University of Reading |
Occupation | MP |
Profession | Chartered Surveyor |
Website | peteraldous.com parliament..peter-aldous |
Peter James Guy Aldous [2] (born 26 August 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Waveney constituency in Suffolk since the 2010 general election.
Peter Aldous was born in Ipswich,Suffolk. [1] He has lived in the north of the county for most of his life. [3] His family own farms near Ipswich and the market town of Halesworth. [2] He was privately educated at Harrow School and graduated from the University of Reading with a degree in Land Management in 1982. [1]
Before his election Aldous was as a chartered surveyor in Norwich. [2] [1] He is a keen squash player. He supports Ipswich Town F.C. [3]
Aldous was elected as a councillor to Waveney District Council in 1999,serving until 2002. [1] He was a member of Suffolk County Council between 2001 and 2005 [1] [3] and was Deputy Leader of the Conservative Group from 2002 until 2005. [3] [4]
Aldous was selected to contest the 2005 general election as the Conservative Party candidate for Waveney,but lost to the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament Bob Blizzard by a majority of 5,915. [5] He contested the seat again at the 2010 general election,this time obtaining 40.2% of the overall vote and generating a 6.8% combined swing from Labour to Conservative,enough to win the seat by a majority of 769. [4] [5]
Aldous was opposed to Brexit prior to the 2016 referendum. [6]
Aldous has been a critic of his party over the implementation of Universal Credit and has called for the abolition of the five-week wait for payments. [7] In August 2021,Aldous and John Stevenson wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call on the government to keep the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift. [8] On 1 February 2022,Aldous called for the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and submitted a letter calling for a no-confidence vote. [9] In the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election he backed former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak,who lost to Liz Truss. [10]
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