John Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, born August 4, 1939, is a British Labour politician with a thirty five year parliamentary career representing Whitehaven and then Copeland. He served as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from May 2, 1997, to July 27, 1998, under Tony Blair, leading modernization efforts at the ministry and working to secure the lifting of European Union export bans on British beef, before moving on to serve as Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, where he chaired a ministerial committee on genetically modified foods. He was created a life peer as Baron Cunningham of Felling in 2005.
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Defining ContributionBecame Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 1997 under Tony Blair, ran a modernisation programme for the Ministry, and worked to secure the lifting of the EU ban on UK beef exports. 1 In the Other Atlases
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John Anderson Cunningham, Baron Cunningham of Felling, (born 4 August 1939) is a British politician who was a Labour Member of Parliament for over 30 years, serving for Whitehaven from 1970 to 1983 and then Copeland until the 2005 general election, and had served in the Cabinet of Tony Blair.
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