Career
He was made life peer, as Baron Goddard of Stockport, of Stockport in the County of Greater Manchester, on 15 September 2014. He was leader of the council between 2007 and 2012.
He was made life peer, as Baron Goddard of Stockport, of Stockport in the County of Greater Manchester, on 15 September 2014. He was leader of the council between 2007 and 2012.
A gas engineer by trade, he was an elected member of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council from 1990 until 2012, and was elected again in 2014.
