Peter Aldous
MP
Official portrait, 2020
Member of Parliament
for Waveney
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byBob Blizzard
Majority18,002 (35.2%)
Suffolk County Councillor
for Halesworth
In office
7 June 2001 – 5 May 2005
Preceded byWendy Mawer
Succeeded byP Honeker
Personal details
Born (1961-08-26) 26 August 1961[1]
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Political partyConservative
Residence(s)Halesworth, Suffolk
EducationHarrow School
Alma materUniversity of Reading
OccupationMP
ProfessionChartered Surveyor
Websitepeteraldous.com
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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.

Personal life

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 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]

Political career

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]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 ‘ALDOUS, Peter’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 31 Dec 2012
  2. 1 2 3 Peter Aldous - Declaration of Interests Archived 15 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Peter Aldous Archived 22 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Conservatives. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  4. 1 2 Guardian Unlimited Politics — Peter Aldous: Electoral history and profile, The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  5. 1 2 Waveney, The Guardian. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  6. ↑ Goodenough, Tom (16 February 2016). "Which Tory MPs back Brexit, who doesn't and who is still on the fence?". The Spectator. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  7. ↑ Papworth, Andrew (10 June 2019). "'Inherently flawed' parts of Universal Credit need rethink, says MP". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "MP writes to his own Tory government amid 'alarm' at universal credit cut". Eastern Daily Press. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  9. ↑ "Boris Johnson news – live: No 10 backs down on party fines secrecy after anger over 'cover-up' attempts". The Independent. 1 February 2022. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
  10. ↑ Warnes, William (11 August 2022). "Waveney MP latest to back Rishi Sunak for Tory leader". East Anglian Daily Times. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
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