Peter Soulsby
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Sir Peter Soulsby is a British Labour Party politician. He served as leader of Leicester City Council from 1981 to 1999, and has been member of Parliament for Leicester South since 2005.
Since 1998 he has been on the board of British Waterways. He is a Unitarian, and was knighted in 1999 for his services to local government.
He was the Labour Party's candidate in the Leicester South by-election in 2004, but lost to Parmjit Singh Gill of the Liberal Democrats. In the 2005 general election, less than a year later, he won the seat back for Labour from Gill.
External links
- Guardian Unlimited Politics - Ask Aristotle: Peter Soulsby MP (http://politics.guardian.co.uk/person/0,9290,-8477,00.html)
- TheyWorkForYou.com - Peter Soulsby MP (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/peter_soulsby/leicester_south)