Peter James Guy Aldous[2] (born 26 August 1961) is a British Conservative Party politician.

[2] He was privately educated at Harrow School and graduated from the University of Reading with a degree in Land Management in 1982.

[6] Aldous has been a critic of his party over the implementation of Universal Credit and has called for the abolition of the five-week wait for payments.

[7] In August 2021, Aldous and John Stevenson wrote to Prime Minister Boris Johnson to call on the government to keep the £20-a-week Universal Credit uplift.

[9] In the July–September 2022 Conservative Party leadership election he backed former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who lost to Liz Truss.