Peter Kyle
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Official portrait, 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Business and Trade President of the Board of Trade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 September 2025 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of Parliament for Hove and Portslade Hove (2015–2024) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Mike Weatherley | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Majority | 19,881 (38.1%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Peter John Kyle 9 September 1970 West Sussex, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Felpham Comprehensive School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Sussex (BSc, PhD) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Thesis | Building capacity for community economic development: the case of the Kat river valley, South Africa (2004) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peter John Kyle (born 9 September 1970) is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade since September 2025. He previously served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology from July 2024 to September 2025. A member of the Labour Party, he has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Hove and Portslade, formerly Hove, since 2015.
Born in West Sussex, Kyle studied at Felpham Comprehensive School. He studied Geography, International Development, and Environmental Studies at the University of Sussex, and later earned a doctorate in Community Development. After university, he worked as an aid worker for Children on the Edge in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. In 2006, he became a Cabinet Office special adviser where he focused on social exclusion policy. At the 2015 general election, Kyle was elected to Parliament as MP for Hove. He was reelected in the 2017 and 2019 general elections. Kyle joined the shadow frontbench under leader Keir Starmer as Shadow Minister for Victims and Youth Justice in April 2020. He was appointed the Shadow Minister for Schools in May 2021.
Kyle was promoted to the shadow cabinet as Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary in November 2021. In the 2023 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Shadow Science Secretary. Following the 2024 general election and subsequent formation of the Starmer ministry, Kyle was appointed to the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology. As Science Secretary, he oversaw the implementation of the Online Safety Act. In the 2025 cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed Secretary of State for Business and Trade and President of the Board of Trade.