Parliament
In Parliament, he was Vice chairman of the Backbench Transport Committee. Vice Chairman of the Backbench Foreign Affairs Committee and was Secretary of the conservative 92 Group. He is a Eurosceptic, a supporter of the death penalty and favours the restoration of corporal punishment in schools. He employed future Romford MP Andrew Rosindell as a researcher.
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