Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris
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Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (born February 12, 1938) is an English politician. He was elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Leominster in 1974. He was suspended from the party in 1997 because he had "repeatedly and publicly questioned his continued commitment to the Conservative Party". He then resigned from the party.
For the remainder of the Fifty-Second Parliament, he sat on the government Labour benches, but did not take the whip, instead sitting as a one-man 'Independent One-Nation Conservative' group. He stood down as an MP in the 2001 general election. He was made a Life Peer in 2001 as Baron Temple-Morris. He sits as a Labour peer.