Peter Kyle

The Right Honourable Peter Kyle MP
Official portrait, 2025
Secretary of State for Business and Trade President of the Board of Trade
In office 5 September 2025 – 20 July 2026
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Jonathan Reynolds
Succeeded by	Jonathan Reynolds
Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology
In office 5 July 2024 – 5 September 2025
Prime Minister	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Michelle Donelan
Succeeded by	Liz Kendall
Shadow cabinet posts 2021‍–‍2024 Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology In office 4 September 2023 – 5 July 2024 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Office established Succeeded by Andrew Griffith Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland In office 29 November 2021 – 4 September 2023 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Louise Haigh Succeeded by Hilary Benn
Junior shadow portfolios 2020‍–‍2021 Shadow Minister for Schools In office 14 May 2021 – 29 November 2021 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Wes Streeting Succeeded by Stephen Morgan Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice In office 9 April 2020 – 14 May 2021 Leader Keir Starmer Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Anna McMorrin
Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade Hove (2015–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 May 2015
Preceded by	Mike Weatherley
Majority	19,881 (38.1%)
Personal details
Born	Peter John Kyle (1970-09-09) 9 September 1970 (age 56) West Sussex, England
Political party	Labour
Education	Felpham Comprehensive School University of Sussex (BSc, PhD)
Signature	File:Peter Kyle MP signature.svg
Website	www.peterkyle.co.uk
Academic background
Thesis	Building capacity for community economic development: the case of the Kat river valley, South Africa (2004)

Peter Kyle (born 9 September 1970) is a British politician who was the Secretary of State for Business and Trade from 2025 to 2026. A member of the Labour Party, he has been Member of Parliament for Hove since 2015.

A former charity sector executive, he previously served as a Shadow Justice Minister from 2020 to 2021 and a Shadow Education Minister in 2021.

Kyle has dyslexia. He is openly gay. For eight years he was in a relationship with Czech man Vlastimil Tiser, until Tiser's death in 2012.

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