Peter Atkinson

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Peter Atkinson MP

Member of Parliament for Hexham
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 April 1992
Preceded by	Alan Amos

Born	19 January 1943 (1943-01-19) (age 65) Northumberland
Nationality	British
Political party	Conservative

Peter Atkinson (born 19 January 1943, Northumberland) has been British Member of Parliament for Hexham since 1992. He is a member of the Conservative Party.

Atkinson was educated at Cheltenham College and after leaving school he became a journalist ande joined the Newcastle Journal in November 1968. He moved to London to work on the Evening Standard as a reporter, eventually becoming News Editor.

In 1982 he left to join a a free newspaper company which grew to fifteen titles. He left to become Deputy Director of the British Field Sports Society with responsibility for political and public affairs.

His political career began in 1978 when he was elected to Wandsworth Council. He left the Council in 1982 and became a member of Wandsworth Health Authority (1982-88)and later became a Suffolk County Councillor (1989-1992), until his election as MP for Hexham.

Atkinson blocked a Private Members Bill on the live export of veal calves during the 1990s by reading from the London telephone directory in parliament to run the clock out.^[1]^[2]