Peter Truscott

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Private Eye reports:

Peter Truscott was once a humble Labour Euro MP. Then he became Lord Truscott, energy minister. Now he has become a consultant to a financial PR firm called Gavin Anderson, whose 'public affairs' unit specialises in what it calls 'influencing legislation'. Gavin Anderson's most notable client? The controversial energy giant, Gazprom.[1]

In January 2009 Lord Truscott was involved in the 'erminegate' affair when a Sunday Times undercover investigation revealed that he was willing to help amend laws in exchange for money.[2]

Current Posts

Former Positions

  • Member of the House of Lords European Union Committee
  • Former departmental liaison peer to the Ministry of Defence
  • MEP Hertfordshire (1994 - 1999)
  • Labour's Foreign Affairs and Defence spokesperson
  • Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
  • Vice-President of the Security Sub Committee
  • Member of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the Russian Federation
  • Claims to have written extensively on foreign and security policy. An expert on the former Soviet Union and European security
  • Visiting Research Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy Research from 1999 - 2000[3]

Notes

  1. Private Eye, No. 1206, 21 March - 3 April 2008, p. 5
  2. Nicholas Watt, 'Erminegate: police called to examine corruption allegations in House of Lords', The Guardian, 26 January 2009.
  3. BERR Website Our Ministerial Team accessed 16th June 2008