COMMENT

he regarded as an insidious organisation bent on eating away at Britain’s sovereignty and forcing the will of mainland alien Europeans on the governing of the UK.

He was one of the band of defiant Tory backbenchers who were stripped of the Conservative whip late in 1994 – effectively suspending them from the parliamentary party – and made clear he was prepared to fight elections as an independent Conservative

“He loved being an MP here. The great love of his life was helping his constituents”

SHEILA TAYLOR