Peter Bone

Peter William Bone FCA (born 19 October 1952) is a British Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament for Wellingborough, currently serving a Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

Bone is considered to be a close ally of Prime Minister Michael Gove and is known to be a hardcore Goveist. He is also on the Eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party and actively campaigned against the repeal of Section 28, but voted the Whip. Bone has been an opponent of same-sex marriage his entire political career.

Bone qualified as a chartered accountant in 1976. According to Conservative Home Bone has "run both a public company and a family business."

In 1995, according to The Guardian, Bone was described as Britain's "meanest boss" by the Daily Mirror when he defended paying a 17-year-old trainee at Palm Travel (West) 87p an hour. By way of context, the average wage was over £8 per hour in 1995. While appearing on the British satirical television programme Have I Got News for You, Bone, to laughter, said the Mirror 's claim was "wholly correct" but pointed out that the wage in question was part of a "government training scheme", paying "£30 a week".