Peter Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh

The Lord Smith of Leigh
The Right Honourable; The Lord Smith of Leigh
	Official Wigan Borough Council portrait of ; Lord Smith
Executive Leader of Wigan Council
	In office; 1991 – 10 May 2018
Succeeded by	David Molyneux
Councillor for Leigh West ; on Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 1978
Personal details
Born	Peter Richard Charles Smith; 24 July 1945; Lowton, Lancashire
Political party	Labour
Alma mater	LSE

Peter Richard Charles Smith, Baron Smith of Leigh (born 24 July 1945) is a British Labour Life Peer from Lancashire.

Career

From a Lowton family, Peter Smith was educated at Bolton School before going up to LSE where he graduated in economics.[1]

Smith has been a member of Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council since 1978 and was Chairman of its Finance Committee from 1982 to 1991; from 1991 to 2018, he served as Leader of the Council.[2] Created a Life Peer on 5 August 1999 as Baron Smith of Leigh, of Wigan in the County of Greater Manchester,[3] since 2005 he has been Treasurer of the Rugby League Group and, since 2006, Vice-Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party's Departmental Committee for Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. He is currently the Chairman of Local Government Leadership, a body seeking to develop leadership skills in local government.[4]

Chair of The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) from 2000-present, he chaired the successor Greater Manchester Combined Authority from its creation in 2011 until the appointment of the interim Mayor in 2015[5]

Lord Smith is married with one daughter, the artist Anna F C Smith.[6]

Orders of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by The Lord MacKenzie of Culkein	Gentlemen Baron Smith of Leigh	Followed by The Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

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