Peter Blaker

Rt. Hon. Lord Peter Allan Renshaw Blaker KCMG Served in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders from 1942-46 as a captain, on leaving the army he became a solicitor and was then admitted to the Foreign Service in 1953 stationed at the embassy in Phnom Penh (1955-57) and at the UK High Commission in Ottawa 1957-60. At the Foreign Office from 1960-62 he was Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Foreign affairs from 1962-64.

He attended a disarmament Conference in Geneva as part of the UN General Assembly in 1962 and 63 (shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis) which led to the signing of the test ban treaty in Moscow in 1963. He became an MP representing Blackpool south from 1964-92, an opposition whip (1967-67) and PPS to the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1970-72), moving to Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Army) at the MOD from 1972-74 and a minister of state at the FCO 1979-81 and for the Armed Forces 1981-83.

He was a member of the executive committee of the British-American Parly group 1975-79 and chairman of the board of the Royal Ordinance factories 1972-74, a member of the Council of Chatham House 1977-79; the Council for Arms Control 1983-; a member of the Freedom Association; Vice Chairman of Peace through NATO;vice-preseident of the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council 1983-; a member of the council of the GB USSR association 1974-92; a Governor of the Atlantic Institute 1978-79; Chairman McLean Hunter Cablevision Ltd 1989-; Integrated Asset Management; Central Lancashire Television; World Trading & Shipping Ltd. Recently he has joined Constantia

In 1991 with Lord Chalfont and right-wing MP Julian Lewis he launched a campaign against ‘Generals for Peace and Disarmament’ led by the Gulf War veteran Brigadier Michael Harbottle stating:

""We have convincing evidence that it is intimately linked with the World Peace Council and other organs of the Soviet propaganda machine." Blaker is also a member of the committee of The European Atlantic Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Conflict Issues which is sponsored by UnLtd.

He has written 'Coping with the Soviet Union' and 'Small Is Dangerous' (1985) was subtitled 'Micro States in a Macro World' and organised by Sheila Harden, this emerged from a study group appointed by the David Davies memorial Institute with texts adopted by consensus of a group consisting of Blaker as chairman, Donald Anderson, Hugh Hannig, Rosalyn Higgens, David jessop, Patrick Keatley, Peter Lyon, Lord mayhew, MAlcolm Shaw, Jack spence and donald cameron Watt. Among the areas covered were the Falklands isles and Grenada.