Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell

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Peter Kingsley Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, PC (born 20 November 1926), is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.

He was previously the Member of Parliament for Rowley Regis and Tipton and for Warley West, having first been elected in the 1966 general election until his retirement at the 1992 general election. After that he received a life peerage as Baron Archer of Sandwell, of Sandwell in the County of West Midlands.^[1] In 1998 he successfully proposed an amendment to the Crime and Disorder Bill which abolished the death penalty for treason and piracy with violence.

He held the post of Solicitor General from 7 March 1974 to 4 May 1979 and Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 1983 to 1987

He is the Vice-Chair of the All-Party Group for World Governance, [1] and is President of the One World Trust, of the World Disarmament Campaign, and of the Fabian Society. [2]

Lord Archer also chaired the Enemy Property Claims Assessment panel which, at time of writing ( 29 December 2007 ) has paid out more than £21m - 10 times its budget - to individuals claiming back funds which had been frozen by the British government during the Second World War. The panel revealed that, in all, 400 claims had been successful, indicating that the average payout had been in the region of £50,000.

He has been married since 1954, has a son born in 1962, and has one grandson.

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• Labour Friends of Israel

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