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Peter Viggers
Peter John Viggers (born March 13, 1938) is a lawyer and Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. He is member of Parliament for Gosport, his home town, and was first elected in 1974. He served as a junior minister under Margaret Thatcher, and was responsible for the selling off of various state assets. He left government in 1989, and has remained on the back-benches since.
In 2002 he made headlines by suggesting the European Union adopt a 'single european language' to cut down in translation costs.
He is a vice-patron of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. He is also an honorary treasury of the America APPG.
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America APPG | Fiftieth Parliament of the United Kingdom | Fifty-Second Parliament of the United Kingdom | MPs elected in the UK general election, 1974 (October) | MPs elected in the UK general election, 1979 | MPs elected in the UK general election, 1983 | MPs elected in the UK general election, 1987 | MPs elected in the UK general election, 1997
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