Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

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Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting CBE (born 1941) is a British Labour Party politician.

A bookseller who rose to become managing director and later chairman of the publisher Faber and Faber, Evans also served as a governor of the British Film Institute.

He was created a life peer in May 2000 as Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, of Temple Guiting in the County of Gloucestershire. In the House of Lords, he has been a government whip since 2002, and a spokesperson for the Department for Constitutional Affairs since 2003. He has also served as a spokesprson for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Treasury.