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: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]].<ref>Private Eye, No. 1206, 21 March - 3 April 2008, p. 5</ref>
 
: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]].<ref>Private Eye, No. 1206, 21 March - 3 April 2008, p. 5</ref>
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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.<ref>Nicholas Watt, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/25/lords-house-commons-corruption-allegations 'Erminegate: police called to examine corruption allegations in House of Lords'], ''The Guardian'', 26 January 2009.</ref>
  
 
==Current Posts ==
 
==Current Posts ==

Revision as of 10:13, 17 January 2012

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