* Pete Staples – born Peter Lawrence Staples, 3 May 1944 at Andover War Memorial Hospital, Andover, Hampshire – Bass Guitar

By this time, the band's line-up was Pope, Staples, Brooks ( vocals, percussion ), Gratton ( drums ), Michael Fonfara ( keyboards, arranger ), and Peter Hodgson ( bass ).

The collaboration with Staples led EMI's Peter York to suggest Griffin make an album of gospel songs.

* Hon Peter Staples, MP: Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister assisting the Treasurer for Prices ( to 15 February 1988 ).

* Hon Peter Staples, MP: Minister for Housing and Aged Care ( to 7 May 1990 ).

* Statement by Peter Staples, Member for Jagajaga in Australia, November 20, 1986

On-air guests have included Radio Hall of Famer Arthur Godfrey ( in 1947 ), Pete Hamill, Steve Buscemi, Tim Robbins, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn, Suzanne Vega, Jimmy Webb, Peter, Paul & Mary, Cyndi Lauper, Sting, Bo Diddley, Judy Collins, Lou Reed, Brian Wilson, Robert Klein, Kevin Bacon, Dick Cavett, Glen Campbell, Ringo Starr, Joshua Bell, Paul Simon, Robbie Robertson, Los Lobos, Tony Bennett, The Bad Plus, Buddy Guy, Rosanne Cash, Elvis Costello, Ani DiFranco, Jackson Browne, Ben Harper, Richard Barone, The Decemberists, Moby, Uncle Tupelo, Josh Ritter, Neil Young, Mavis Staples, and Norah Jones ( in her radio debut ).

The list includes: Joe Strummer, The Clash, Pete Doherty, Shane MacGowan, The Slits, Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, James Taylor, Justin Hayward, The Mescaleros, Richard Strange, Ian Hunter, Ellen Foley, The Poison Girls, Glyn Johns, Peter Asher, Liam Genockey, Pandit Ramesh Misra, Salah Dawson Miller, Richard Dudanski, Roy Harper, The Cramps, Trapeze, Neville Staples, The Fall, Stone the Crows, Rory McLeod, Charles Hayward, Lol Coxhill, DM Bob & Jem Finer, Orphy Robinson, Hugh Hopper, Robb Johnson, and Claire Hamill.

ISBN 0-7522-0192-1 ( with Peter Willis and Clare Staples )

The Loch Ness Phenomena Investigation Bureau ( LNPIB ) was a UK-based society formed in 1962 by Norman Collins, R. S. R. Fitter, David James, MP, Peter Scott and Constance Whyte " to study Loch Ness to identify the creature known as the Loch Ness Monster or determine the causes of reports of it.

Notable MPs for the area have included the industrialist Crawshay Bailey from 1852 to 1868 ; Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1957 – 58 and Chairman of the Conservative Party 1975 – 81, who was the town's MP from 1945 to 1966 ; and John Stradling Thomas, MP from 1970 to 1991.

The current Father of the House of Commons is Sir Peter Tapsell, Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle, who began his continuous service from the 1966 general election.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

Chris Mullin, MP, speaking on 23 November 1988, argued that sources other than Peter Wright supported claims of a long-standing attempt by MI5 to undermine Wilson's government.

The government increased their parliamentary majority on 24 November 2011 from 75 – 74 to 76 – 73 when the Coalition's Peter Slipper became an independent MP and Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives, replacing Labor's Harry Jenkins.

In July 1998, Liberal MP Peter McLellan, Member for Frankston East, resigned from the party in protest over alleged corrupt Liberal Party Senate preselection, changes to WorkCover and the auditor-general ’ s office.

The Mitfords were also referenced in BBC TV's Season 4 of " The Thick of It ", broadcast on 22nd September 2012 when Peter Mannion ( MP ) remarks to Emma Messinger that " You turned into the wrong Mitford Sister " as she steps up to co-present with party spin-doctor, Stuart Pearson.

* Peter Ainsworth ( born 1956 ) — former MP

Peter Robert Garrett AM, MP ( born 16 April 1953 ) is an Australian musician, environmentalist, activist and politician.

* Peter Brooke ( MP ), 17th-century English politician

" South African-born MP Peter Hain, who campaigned for a Welsh Assembly, warned creating an English parliament or trying to stop Scottish and Welsh MPs from voting on England-only matters would break up the Union.

Mr. Peter Luff ( MP for Mid-Worcestershire ), House of Commons, 22 July.

* Peter Vanhoutte, former politician and former Belgian MP ( b. 1956 )

His mother was Helen, daughter of Peter Blackburn, MP for Stirlingshire.

Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Baron Mandelson, PC ( born 21 October 1953 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Hartlepool from 1992 to 2004, served in a number of Cabinet positions under both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and was a European Commissioner.

300 of them went into the Palace, 100 to lobby the MP for Stepney, Peter Shore, and 200 to lobby the MP for Poplar, Ian Mikardo.

Benjamin Peter James Bradshaw ( born 30 August 1960 ) is a British Labour politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Exeter since 1997, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.

In October 2008, Peter Robinson MP, the First Minister of Northern Ireland backed his wife's claims stating " It wasn't Iris Robinson who determined that homosexuality was an abomination, it was The Almighty.

Peter Gerald Hain ( born 16 February 1950 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Neath since 1991, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

Peter Gordon MacKay, PC, QC, MP ( born September 27, 1965 ) is a lawyer and politician from Nova Scotia, Canada.

" Local MP Peter Mandelson wrote to the Secretary of State for National Heritage, David Mellor, in June 1992, saying " Yorkshire and Tyne Tees are motivated by the interests of their shareholders, not their viewers, and need to make urgent savings ... it is quite clear that this is not so much a merger but a gobbling up of a smaller franchise held by a larger company.

* 1884 – Peter Fraser, New Zealand politician, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand ( d. 1950 )

* 1898 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( d. 1968 )

* Peter MacKay, lawyer, Canadian Minister of National Defence

* Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U. S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.

* The Iris Robinson scandal in which First Minister of Northern Ireland Peter Robinson stepped aside for six weeks in January 2010 following revelations of his wife ’ s involvement in an extramarital affair, her attempted suicide and allegations that he had failed to properly declare details of loans she had procured for her lover to develop a business venture.

They have three ministers in Berlin: Hans-Peter Friedrich ( Federal Ministry of the Interior ), Peter Ramsauer ( Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs ) and Ilse Aigner ( Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ).

In his June 2009, budget speech, Chief Minister Peter Caruana noted that Gibraltar's economy remains in good shape and Government finances remain healthy, solid, stable and robust, despite global economic and financial turmoil.

Speaking at the 2007 budget session, Peter Caruana, the Chief Minister said " The scale of Gibraltar's economic success makes it one of the most affluent communities in the entire world.

Support for his leadership was eroded even further by his refusal to sack the Minister for Air Peter Howson in order to defuse the scandal, fuelling criticism from within the party that Holt was " weak " and lacked Menzies ' ruthlessness.

King Peter II, American President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill joined Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in officially recognising Tito and the Partisans at the Tehran Conference.

* 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

A Friedman Prize was given to the late British economist Peter Bauer during 2002, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto during 2004, Mart Laar, former Estonian Prime Minister during 2006 and a young Venezuelan student Yon Goicoechea during 2008.

* 1968 – Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands ( b. 1898 )

The current Prime Minister is Peter O ' Neill.

Nonetheless, self-government was achieved in January 1976 and after July 1976, Sir Peter Kenilorea became the Chief Minister who would lead the country to independence.

Others who dispute the validity of the term include: Peter Howson, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in 1971 – 72, Keith Windschuttle and Andrew Bolt Others argue against these critics, responding to Windschuttle and Bolt in particular.

The Northern Ireland Executive is led by a diarchy, currently First Minister Peter Robinson ( Democratic Unionist Party ) and deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness ( Sinn Féin ).

** Jan Peter Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands

* 20 June 1997: Tony Blair appointed Peter Mandelson to the role of Minister for the Millennium after his announcement that the beleaguered £ 580 million dome would go ahead

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

The Dutch general election of 2006 did not start off well for the VVD: top candidate Mark Rutte was criticized by his own parliamentary party for being invisible in the campaign, and he was unable to break the attention away from the duel between current Christian-Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende and Wouter Bos of the Labour Party.

He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

* Jan Peter Balkenende — Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( 2002 – 2010 )