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Peter Goldsmith, Baron GoldsmithPeter Henry Goldsmith, Baron Goldsmith, PC, is the current Attorney General of England and Wales. Goldsmith was born in Liverpool and educated in law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and University College London. He was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1972. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1987 and a Deputy High Court Judge in 1994. He was created a life peer in 1999, as Baron Goldsmith, of Allerton in the County of Merseyside. He was appointed Her Majesty's Attorney General in June 2001. One of his first acts was to discuss breaches of the injunction against offenders in the Jamie Bulger murder case. He became a Privy Counsellor in 2002. The nature of Lord Goldsmith's legal advice to the Government over the legality of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was a significant political issue in 2003 and early 2004. The Government has faced repeated calls to break with tradition and have the advice made public. It has so far turned down the appeals. On March 10, 2005, Cabinet Secretary Sir Andrew Turnbull revealed that Goldsmith's opinion was only one page long, which provoked outrage from opposition Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, as well as from Labour backbenchers who had opposed the war. External references Goldsmith, Peter Henry Goldsmith, Peter Henry Goldsmith, Peter Henry
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