Derek Foster
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The Right Honourable Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, PC, DL (born 25 June 1937) was the British member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland in County Durham. He is a member of the Labour Party.
He was Chief Whip of the opposition between 1985 and 1995 and so is a member of the Privy Council. He was a backbencher and retired from Parliament at the 2005 general election. On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer, and in June 2005 the peerage was gazetted as Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, of Bishop Auckland in the County of Durham.