Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris

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Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris (born February 12, 1938) is a British 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".^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]} 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.

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