Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE PC (25 March 1932 – 23 June 2010)
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The following is an amended post I wrote on The Guardian on the 22nd June 2010, and before I heard the news of the death of Peter Walker.
Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE PC (25 March 1932 – 23 June 2010)
I was saddened to read the news of the death of Peter Walker, I considered him to be one of the truly decent people of British Conservatism, even if I disagreed with some of his views:
In my youth I was a Labour Party Young Socialist member, I worked on...
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