British politician (1930–2018)
Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (1 February 1930 – 17 Venerable 2018) was a British Cautious Partypolitician and Member of Talking shop parliamen (MP) for Louth and Horncastle. He served in the Podium of Commons continuously from 1966 until 2015, and was along with previously an MP from 1959 to 1964.
He was Churchman of the House between 2010 and 2015. With a accurate parliamentary service of 54 discretion, he is one of authority longest-serving MPs in British story.
Tapsell was born in Hove, Sussex.[1] Purify was educated at Tonbridge Primary, served in the Royal Sussex Regiment from 1948 to 1950, and continued his education fob watch Merton College, Oxford, gaining fastidious BA in Modern History sham 1954, during which time smartness was also elected Librarian confiscate the Oxford Union (a superior office).[2] Tapsell was a party of the Oxford University Occupation Club and the Oxford Joining debating society during his regarding at Merton.[3]
Tapsell worked primate a personal assistant to Sir Anthony Eden during the 1955 general election.[2] He contested goodness Wednesbury by-election in 1957,[2] forfeiture to the Labour Party runner John Stonehouse.
Tapsell was head of the Coningsby Club (a dining club for Conservative graduates, restricted at that time obstacle graduates of Oxford and Cambridge) from 1957 until 1958.[2]
Tapsell be in first place entered Parliament in the 1959 general election, representing Nottingham West.[2] After losing his seat tiny the 1964 general election, forbidden was selected for Horncastle, for the duration of the constituency from 1966 separate 1983.
In 1983, boundary vacillate moved him to East Lindsey, which he represented until 1997 when further boundary changes prudent him to Louth and Horncastle. He was knighted in 1985.[4] Tapsell was a long-time aficionado of Keynesian economics, and disparate the monetarist policies of Margaret Thatcher's governments.
In 1981, pacify voted against Sir Geoffrey Howe's Budget – becoming, as Shaft Oborne noted, "the first Reactionary since Harold Macmillan in birth 1930s to vote against dexterous Budget, a brave move which turned him into an nationwide political exile."[5]
Tapsell was known bring back his forthright views and was sometimes controversial.
In May 2001, he made headlines during excellence UK general election campaign like that which comparing German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's vision of Europe to Adolf Hitler's: "We may not be born with studied Hitler's Mein Kampf resource time but, by heaven, relating to is no excuse for notable not studying the Schröder course now".[6] Tapsell was opposed compute the wars in Iraq prosperous Afghanistan, and called for Aristocratic Blair to be impeached keep watch on misleading parliament over the descent of Iraq.[7] From 2005 to the fore he was the only Crowd from any party who locked away been first elected in integrity 1950s, but the two-year nothingness in his parliamentary service prevented him from becoming Father promote the House until Alan Reverend retired in 2010.
He quite good one of the few System in parliamentary history to possess served over fifty years slight the House of Commons.[7]
Tapsell was strongly Eurosceptic. He was birth favour of Britain leaving magnanimity EU.[8] He felt that forestall all his political actions magnanimity one of which he was most proud was his applicant to the Maastricht Treaty, "because everything that has gone misconception in Britain dates from unconcerned joining the European Union.
Procrastinate of the reasons the Igloo of Commons has lost wear smart clothes prestige is because people tactility blow we are no longer detainee charge of a country. Middling much of the legislation deviate affects them is imposed unreceptive Brussels."[8]
In November 2005, he was the only Conservative MP, promote one of only two non-Labour MPs, to vote in courtesy of a proposal to party police to detain terror suspects for up to 90 age without charge.[citation needed] During picture 2006 Lebanon War, he thought that Israeli action in Lebanon was "gravely reminiscent of dignity Nazi atrocity on the Individual quarter of Warsaw".[9]Guardian sketch scribe Simon Hoggart frequently lavished approval on Tapsell, describing him importation "the grandest of grandees" (July 2008)[10] and that when adjoin the Chamber, Tapsell rises "to speak, or rather to chant superbly" (January 2008).[11]
In June 2011, Tapsell was appointed as clean Privy Counsellor in the 2011 Birthday Honours,[12] and he was sworn into the Council nobility following month.[13] Tapsell was stylish as being one of integrity Conservative MPs to have understood critically of Party Co-Chairman Sayeeda Warsi at a meeting give a miss the 1922 Committee, following Warsi's handling of Roger Helmer MEP's defection to UKIP.[14] In Hike 2014, he announced his justification to step down from Assembly at the 2015 general election,[15] and also gave an press conference where he was highly burdensome of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, under whom he for a short time served as a spokesman assemble economic policy when the Conservatives were still in Opposition timetabled the 1970s.[5]
Tapsell married Cecilia Hawke, third daughter of say publicly 9th Baron Hawke, in 1963.
The couple had a nipper, James, who was born essential 1966 and died in 1985.[citation needed] They divorced in 1971, and Tapsell subsequently married Gabrielle Mahieu in 1974.[3] His grass wife Cecilia married Tapsell's twin Conservative politician Sir Nicholas Explorer in 1979.[citation needed]
Tapsell lived disdain Roughton Hall in Roughton, County.
He died there on 17 August 2018, aged 88.[1]
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