Alastair Goodlad
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The Right Honourable Sir Alistair Goodlad was a British Conservative politician and is the current British High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of Australia.
MP for Eddisbury, Goodlad served as Prime Minister John Major's Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip, and was given the temporary shadow cabinet positions of Leader of the House of Commons and Chief Whip.
Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair then appointed Goodlad as High Commissioner to Australia. Goodlad accepted the office of Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds on 28 June 1999 to formally vacate his seat, triggering the Eddisbury by-election.
Goodlad will be replaced as High Commissioner by former Secretary of State for Scotland, Helen Liddell, should the Labour Party win the next UK general election.
On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer.
External links
- "The Shadow Cabinet" - BBC Election '97 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/election97/cabinet/shadow.htm)
- "Another Tory wooed by Blair" - BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/571259.stm)
| Preceded by: Richard Ryder | Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Chief Whip 1995-1997 | Followed by: Nick Brown |