Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich (born 24 April 1937) is a British politician in the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...

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Life

King served as Councillor of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council from 1979 to 2007. He was a deputy mayor from 1982 to 1983.
He was created a life peer in 1999 as Baron King of West Bromwich, of West Bromwich in the County of West Midlands. From 1999 to 2003 he belonged to the committee Member Hybrid Instruments. Since 2006 he is Treasurer of the India Group.

He is also the Patron of the Universal Peace Federation which is an affiliate of the Unification Church

Unification Church

The Unification Church is a new religious movement founded by Korean religious leader Sun Myung Moon. In 1954, the Unification Church was formally and legally established in Seoul, South Korea, as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity . In 1994, Moon gave the church...

(commonly known at the "Moonies")

Sources

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• http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199899/minutes/990728/ldminute.htm
• http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/rolls/peerage/lifebarons.htm
• http://www.sophiaandme.org.uk/LORDS%20SURNAMES.pdf
• http://peerages.info/peerages5.htm
• http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/people/mr-tarsem-king