Peter Shipley
Peter Shipley was a Conservative activist active in the 1980s.
Peter Shipley worked in the Prime Minister's Policy Unit for two years until September 1984.[1]
He then joined Conservative Party Central Office.[2]
More than Militant
In September 1986, Shipley published More than Militant, a pamphlet on the Labour Party for Conservative Central Office.[3] The Times reported:
- The Labour Party has been infiltrated successfully by three Trotskyist organizations in addition to the Militant Tendency, according to a pamphlet by Mr Peter Shipley, a former adviser to the Prime Minister, published yesterday.
- In his pamphlet More than Militant: The future of the Labour left, Mr Shipley predicts that after the next general election, two-thirds of Labour MPs will belong to the Tribune Group or organizations further to the left.[4]
1987 election
In 1987, Shipley was seconded to Conservative Central Office, working directly under Norman Tebbit, providing quotes to be used by Saatchi and Saatchi against left-wing parliamnetary candidates.[5]
Affiliations
- Good Relations PLC - Public relations consultant
Notes
- ↑ Richard Norton-Taylor, Senior Defence Ministry official 'to resign soon' / John Stanley, Minister of State for the Armed Forces, The Guardian, 6 September 1984.
- ↑ Phil Edwards and Robin Ramsay, The 'Terrorist Threat' in Britain, Lobster 17, November 1988.
- ↑ Beware the Kinnock factor, Tory warns / Conservatives alerted to Labour's new image, Martin Wainwright, 26 September 1986.
- ↑ Candidate selection is halted, The Times, 25 September 1986.
- ↑ David Hencke, Election 87: Tebbit's aide digs to discredit left candidates - Anti-Militant author joins Central Office to fuel Saatchi and Saatchi, The Guardian, 4 June 1987.
