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 spokesperson for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Treasury. He is married to literary agent Caroline Michel.