Henry McLeish, Labour First Minister of Scotland, failed to refund the House of Commons for income he had received from the sub-let of his constituency office in Glenrothes while still a Westminster MP.

He was also an MP, but ultimately failed owing to his fraudulent practices of, for example, paying dividends from capital.

In 1999, MP Svend Robinson brought forward a failed proposal before the Canadian House of Commons that would have amended the Charter by removing the mention of God, as he felt it did not reflect Canada's diversity.

" and " Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas said the “ war on drugs has failed ”.

On 27 July 2011: Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert wrote " Britain's drug policy has failed " and " It's time for a radical overhaul "; affirming his belief ( s ).

In the end the amendment failed, but voting on it saw the Liberal majority reduced by 40, and when a compromise amendment was proposed by another Liberal MP the government Whips were forced to trawl for votes.

Latham's abuse resulted mainly from two allegations: firstly that Beazley had engaged in a prolonged campaign to undermine Latham in his positions as a frontbencher and as opposition leader and, secondly, that Beazley ( as leader ) had failed to provide support to Labor MP Greg Wilton, who later committed suicide.

At that year's general election, Christabel Pankhurst, standing as a Women's Party candidate, narrowly failed to become Britain's first woman MP, being defeated by Labour by 775 votes in a straight fight.

Essentially National had failed to make up enough ground in the cities but swept the electoral votes in the provinces, clawing back a number of seats from Labour and defeating New Zealand First founder-leader Winston Peters in his electorate ( Peters remained in Parliament as a list MP ).

In 1995, the Socialist Party, then led by António Guterres, won a general election for the first time in twelve years, and in 1999, they failed to obtain what would have been an historic absolute majority for the party by only one MP.

On 19 January, Oaten withdrew from the contest, having failed to attract enough support from within the parliamentary party ; his sole backers were Lembit Öpik MP and Sarah Ludford, Baroness Ludford, a peer and MEP.

He stood against the incumbent Popular Unionist Party MP Sir James Kilfedder in North Down as a " Real Unionist " but failed to win the seat.

This opposition may have backfired ( albeit temporarily ), as Johnston lost his seat at the 1931 general election, and failed to be returned at a by-election in Dunbartonshire in 1932, but he returned ( representing Stirling and Clackmannan West ) to the House of Commons at the 1935 general election and remained an MP until retiring in the 1945 general election.

To rectify this, Siobhain McDonagh MP introduced the House of Commons Disqualification ( Amendment ) Bill in Parliament on 16 June 1999, but the Bill failed.

After an enquiry failed to find the source of the leak, Labour MP Peter Mandelson demanded assurance from Howard that Cameron had not been responsible, which Howard gave.

Chuck Cadman, a former CA MP who failed to win the Conservative Party nomination in his riding, was re-elected as an independent.

The Socreds failed in their attempts to convince Independent MP Leonard Jones to join their party.

He took South Antrim at a by-election in 2000 caused by the death of Ulster Unionist Party MP, Clifford Forsythe, but failed to retain this seat at the 2001 election.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative MP for Argenteuil in 1904, having failed to defeat Mr. W. C. Edwards for the seat in Russell County during the election of 1900.

The Coalition failed to promote a united team under Lawrence Springborg MP, ready to assume government following a failed attempt to merge to the National Party into the Queensland Liberal Party earlier in the year.

He was the only Hartlepool member on the shortlist when Peter Mandelson stepped down as Labour MP for the town in September 2004 and was easily selected as the Labour Party candidate for the by-election ; during the later stages of the campaign, three local members-one of whom featured in Conservative Party leaflets and another of whom had earlier failed to win the nomination-were reported in the Guardian newspaper ( which subsequently endorsed Liberal Democrat rival Jody Dunn ) to have been unhappy that no other local candidate had been available.

The Court of Election may reconvene at any time in order to discuss appeals by candidates who failed to be elected, and also to fill seats that become vacant in the case of death or abdication of an MP.

This was well short of the five percent threshold required to enter Parliament without an electorate MP but was the best performance of any party that failed to enter Parliament.

Dahyabhai Patel was a businessman who eventually was elected to serve in the Lok Sabha ( the lower house of the Indian Parliament ) as an MP in the 1960s.

* Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet ( 1764 – 1851 ), businessman and Member of Parliament ( MP ), father of William Ewart Gladstone

* Samuel Morley MP ( 1809-1886 ), businessman, statesman, philanthropist and abolitionist – lived in Stoke Newington.

* William Williams ( Radical politician ) ( 1788 – 1865 ), Welsh businessman based in London, Radical MP 1835 – 1847 and 1850 – 1865

* The restoration of the street's monuments, including those of late nineteenth century Irish political leader Charles Stewart Parnell, radical early twentieth century labour leader Jim Larkin, prominent businessman and nationalist MP Sir John Grey, and the most challenging of all: the conservation of the O ' Connell Monument standing guard at the southern entrance to the thoroughfare.

Named in the list of beneficiaries were British MP George Galloway and his charity, the Mariam Fund ; former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua ; and Shaker al-Kaffaji, an Iraqi-American businessman, India's foreign minister, Natwar Singh, was removed from office because of his role in the scandal.

* Thomas Chandler Haliburton ( 1796 – 1865 ), a Canadian writer, lawyer, and businessman ; MP in both Nova Scotia and England

Sir William Mulock, PC, KCMG, MP, QC, LL. D ( January 19, 1843 – October 1, 1944 ) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, educator, farmer, politician, judge, and philanthropist.

* John Dermot Campbell ( 1898 – 1945 ), Northern Irish businessman and Ulster Unionist MP

* Steven Norris, former MP and businessman.

* John Davies ( businessman ) ( 1916 – 1979 ), British businessman ( British Petroleum ) and Conservative MP and cabinet minister

* John Davies ( businessman ) ( 1916 – 1979 ), British businessman ( British Petroleum ) and Conservative MP and cabinet minister

The successful businessman and racehorse owner Charles Villiers ( born 1963 ) who co-founded the local newspaper company Score Press Limited, which was sold for £ 155 million in 2005, is the great-great-great grandson of the aforementioned Thomas Villiers MP.

* January 20-Pat Mahoney, businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South ( 1968 – 1972 ), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders ( 1965 ) ( d. 2012 )

His father ( Sir John MacLeod ) was a successful businessman before entering politics as a Unionist MP ; his mother Edith was from a wealthy Lancastrian family ( owning cotton mills ).

* John Phillips Rhodes ( 1884 – 1955 ), Sir John Phillips Rhodes, 2nd Baronet, British businessman and MP

* David Evans ( British politician ) ( 1935 – 2008 ), British businessman and Conservative politician, MP 1987 – 1997

The Member of Parliament ( MP ) is for Ottawa South David McGuinty, a former businessman, immigration officer, lawyer and professor.

Japhet Mbiuki Kareke, Currently Nithi MP, and prominent businessman.

* Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman, grandson of Jamnalal Bajaj, chairman of Bajaj Auto, and MP of Rajya Sabha

* Alexander Duncan McRae, Canadian businessman, Army General, MP, Senator and farmer

* Bantry is the birthplace of William Martin Murphy, formerly a wealthy Catholic businessman and MP at Westminster.