James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC, known as Jim Prior, is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft and for the renamed constituency of Waveney. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he graduated with a BA degree in Estate Management, getting first class honours. He did military service as an officer in the Royal Norfolk Regiment of the British Army, serving in Germany and India.

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  • James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC, known as Jim Prior, is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft and for the renamed constituency of Waveney. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he graduated with a BA degree in Estate Management, getting first class honours. He did military service as an officer in the Royal Norfolk Regiment of the British Army, serving in Germany and India. He was first elected to Parliament in 1959, and was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1970-1972, then Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council until February 1974. Under Margaret Thatcher he was Secretary of State for Employment from May 1979 to 14 September 1981. During this period he is believed to have angered the right-wing of his party, and the Prime Minister by not pressing far enough with anti-trade union legislation. In September 1981, Prior became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and was in this office until 10 September 1984. This transfer was widely seen as a move by Thatcher to isolate Prior, who disagreed with her on a number of economic issues and was seen as one of the cabinet 'wets'. The post of Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was during Thatcher's reign, seen as a dumping ground to marginalise ministers. Although when Prior resigned, Thatcher revealed that she was going to offer him another Cabinet post during the reshuffle, which would have very likely been a non-economic one. He retired from Parliament in 1987 and was later created a life peer as Baron Prior, of Brampton in the County of Suffolk. His successor, David Porter never managed to escape the shadow of Prior. He is Vice President and was Chairman of the Rural Housing Trust.
  • James Michael Leathes Prior, Paroni Prior PC on brittiläinen Konservatiivisen puolueen poliitikko. Prior opiskeli Charterhouse Schoolissa ja Cambridgen yliopiston Pembroke Collegessa. Prior tuli valituksi parlamenttiin ensimmäistä kertaa vuonna 1959, ja hän istui siellä yhtämittaisesti vuoteen 1987. Hän toimi maatalousministerinä, työministerinä ja Pohjois-Irlannin asioiden ministerinä. Hän oli Privy Councilin ja House of Commonsin puheenjohtaja vuosina 1972–1974. Parlamentaariselta uraltaan vuonna 1987 vetäytynyt James Prior on elinikäinen pääri.
  • James Michael Leathes Prior, baron Prior, brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, minister w rządach Edwarda Heatha i Margaret Thatcher. Wykształcenie odebrał w Charterhouse School oraz w Pembroke College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge, który ukończył z tytułem bakałarza zarządzania dobrami ziemskimi. Służbę wojskową odbył w szeregach Królewskiego Pułku z Norfolk w Niemczech i Indiach. Do Izby Gmin został wyborany po raz pierwszy w 1959 r. jako reprezentant okręgu Lowestoft. W 1970 r. został ministrem rolnictwa, rybołówstwa i żywoności w gabinecie Edwarda Hetha. W latach 1972-1974 był przewodniczącym Izby Gmin oraz Lordem Przewodniczącym Rady. W latach 1979-1981 był ministrem zatrudniania w gabinecie Margaret Thatcher. W latach 1981-1984 był ministrem ds. Irlandii Północnej. Przeniesienie było spowodowane postawą Priora, który nie podzielał ekonomicznych poglądów pani premier i doradzał jej łagodne traktowanie zwiazków zawodowych. Prior pozostał w rządzie do 1984 r. W 1987 r. zrezygnował ze startu w wyborach i został kreowany parem dożywotnim jako baron Prior, dzięki czemu zasiadł w Izbie Lordów. Obecnie jest przewodniczącym Rural Housing Trust.
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  • 1972 – 1974
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  • James Michael Leathes Prior, Baron Prior, PC, known as Jim Prior, is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Lowestoft and for the renamed constituency of Waveney. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Pembroke College, Cambridge where he graduated with a BA degree in Estate Management, getting first class honours. He did military service as an officer in the Royal Norfolk Regiment of the British Army, serving in Germany and India.
  • James Michael Leathes Prior, Paroni Prior PC on brittiläinen Konservatiivisen puolueen poliitikko. Prior opiskeli Charterhouse Schoolissa ja Cambridgen yliopiston Pembroke Collegessa. Prior tuli valituksi parlamenttiin ensimmäistä kertaa vuonna 1959, ja hän istui siellä yhtämittaisesti vuoteen 1987. Hän toimi maatalousministerinä, työministerinä ja Pohjois-Irlannin asioiden ministerinä. Hän oli Privy Councilin ja House of Commonsin puheenjohtaja vuosina 1972–1974.
  • James Michael Leathes Prior, baron Prior, brytyjski polityk, członek Partii Konserwatywnej, minister w rządach Edwarda Heatha i Margaret Thatcher. Wykształcenie odebrał w Charterhouse School oraz w Pembroke College na Uniwersytecie Cambridge, który ukończył z tytułem bakałarza zarządzania dobrami ziemskimi. Służbę wojskową odbył w szeregach Królewskiego Pułku z Norfolk w Niemczech i Indiach. Do Izby Gmin został wyborany po raz pierwszy w 1959 r.
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  • James Prior, Baron Prior
  • James Prior
  • James Prior
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