When an MP Widdecombe was known for her strong socially conservative views, opposing the legality of abortion and supporting the re-introduction of the death penalty.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

* Michael Howard, portrayed as a vampire owing to comments about his apparent sinister personality by Tory MP Ann Widdecombe and his ancestors being from Romania.

Charles Kennedy, former leader of the Liberal Democrats, appears as a bit of a drunk, while Michael Howard, the former head of the Conservative Party, was shown as a vampire ( a reference to the " something of the night about him " comment by Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe ).

These have been criticised by senior Conservative MP and Prisons Spokeswoman Ann Widdecombe as an " insult to women ", Widdecombe accusing Cameron of " storing up huge problems for the future.

In February 2007, Ann Widdecombe, the local MP, opened the Marden Heritage Centre in Marden Library.

* Ann Widdecombe ( Conservative MP )

The MP for the seat from its creation in 1997 was Ann Widdecombe of the Conservative Party.

* British MP Ann Widdecombe used the phrase in a debate on drug prohibition with a representative of Transform Drug Policy Foundation: "... it is cloud cuckoo land to suggest that who don't currently use heroin would not start using it if it became legal ".

Recent terms ' speakers of note have included Piers Paul Read on the reality of Hell ; Fr Timothy Finigan on ' Humanae Vitae '; Fr Thomas Weinandy on the Incarnation ; Fr John Saward on the character of Heaven, and, separately, on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum ; Fr Aidan Nichols on the centenary of Pope St Pius X's condemnation of Modernism ; Professor Geza Vermes ( in debate with Dom Henry Wansbrough ) on the historicity of the Gospels ; Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe MP on being a Catholic politician ; Sir Anthony Kenny on the Oxford Movement ; and Baroness Williams of Crosby on the relationship between God and Caesar.

Following the events of Bloody Sunday Bernadette Devlin, an Independent Socialist nationalist MP from Northern Ireland, expressed anger at what she perceived as government attempts to stifle accounts being reported about the day.

The former head of the Salafist party Asalah in Bahrain, MP Sheikh Adel Mouwda, expressed the Sunni Islamist perspective on Iran, telling the New York Times, " If Iran acted like an Islamic power, just Islam without Shiism, then Arabs would accept it as a regional Islamic power.

" However, Sauvé also attracted negative attention due to her husband's eventual elevation as a Crown minister ; in a piece in The Globe and Mail, Progressive Conservative MP Louis-Joseph Pigeon expressed concern over the wife of a minister being paid " fabulous sums by the CBC ," calling the circumstances a " shame and a scandal.

On 15 January, just when he intended to move a motion on his proposal to have the Midleton plan agreed, some nationalists colleagues, the prominent Catholic Bishop O ' Donnell and MP Joseph Devlin expressed doubts.

John Pym, MP for Tavistock, quickly emerged as a major figure in debate ; his long speech on 17 April expressed the refusal of the House of Commons to vote subsidies unless royal abuses were addressed.

He indicated that he might stand against Hazel Blears in Salford ( the first sitting MP of a party other than the Conservative party against whom he expressed an interest in standing ) although in the end he did not stand in any constituency.

Other caucus members who had expressed interest in running included Jason Dearborn, Allan Kerpan ( a former Reform MP ), and Ken Cheveldayoff, the MLA for Saskatoon Silver Springs who at one time was the President of the Young Progressive Conservatives of Saskatchewan.

The comments were condemned by Labour Leader Ed Miliband MP and Jon Cruddas MP In the same article Rosindell expressed his support for Pinochet on the basis that he overthrew a communist regime and provided assistance to the British forces retaking the Falkland Islands.

As early as 1833, while MP for Cork, O ' Connor had delivered an address to the National Union of the Working Classes, a political society of London workingmen, in which he expressed radical sentiments and made strong attacks on the Whigs.

There was a lot of outrage expressed by London newspapers and UK politicians, including Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn, who referred to COUM as the " wreckers of Western civilization ".

Lowe also expressed surprise that so much had been made of “ Thomson ’ s anodyne reference ” for Mokbel, given that Thomson had done “ what most MP ’ s do quite routinely, writing a reference for a constituent ”.

Liberal MP Keith Martin expressed his disapproval of " whoever the idiot who approved that ad was ," shortly before Liberal leader Paul Martin ( no relation ) stated that he had personally approved them.

In 1977, responding by letter to a written question in the House of Commons from Plaid Cymru MP Dafydd Wigley to the Attorney-General for England and Wales, Lord Chancellor Lord Elwyn-Jones said he could find no record of the charter having been formally amended or withdrawn but also noted academic opinion that " no doubt has ever been expressed about Parliament's power to enact legislation for the stannaries without the need to obtain the consent of Convocation ".

but the Conservative MP Michael Gove and journalist Mark Lawson expressed disagreement, Gove describing them as " exercises in viewer patronisation ".

He expressed delight at the Great Reform Act 1832, although he only spoke on the subject once, and chose its passage on 4 June 1832 as the appropriate moment to retire as an MP.

On 27 July 2007, opposition was expressed at a public meeting of 2, 000 residents chaired by the local MP, John Hayes, who expressed his opposition to sites within The Deepings.

The owners of Sheffield Arena as well as Clive Betts, the MP for Sheffield Attercliffe, have expressed opposition over Yorkshire Forward's funding of Leeds Arena which they see will cause considerable economic damage to Sheffield Arena, East Sheffield and Sheffield / South Yorkshire itself, Yorkshire Forward have dismissed these claims and state that the arena will bring economic growth not only to Leeds and West Yorkshire but to the entire region.

Both Redgrave and his second wife, Kika Markham, expressed support for Viva Palestina, a humanitarian convoy, led by British MP George Galloway, attempting to break what they asserted to be the siege of the Gaza Strip.

On this programme, she expressed an interest in becoming an MP, in order to change Britain's anti sex laws, which she followed through with by standing for Parliament as a candidate for the Payne and Pleasure Party in the Kensington by-election in July 1988, followed by her standing in her own area of Streatham in the 1992 UK General Election.

The NCC has also suggested the city to consider other options then the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway while all three Ottawa Centre candidates for the 2008 federal elections, including incumbent New Democratic Party MP Paul Dewar, Liberal candidate Penny Collenette and Conservative candidate Brian McGarry also expressed opposition to rail on the Parkway.

Plamondon also expressed sympathy with fellow MP Robert Toupin, who left the Progressive Conservatives in May 1986 to sit as an independent.

Her uncle, Kevin Cairns, was a Liberal minister and MP in the McMahon government, but the family was not inclined towards his conservative politics.

He took much interest in public affairs and supported the National Liberal Party – being gradually more of a conservative – both as an MP for some periods between 1854 and 1871 and as a strong supporter of the case of defence.

In 1998, a Parliamentary Commission, led by Socialist MP Bernard Grasset ( Green MP Noël Mamère and conservative MP Patrick Devedjian were also part of it ), was created to investigate its acts, after several violent incidents during demonstrations and other occasions.

Several opponents, including former PC Party Treasurer Jim Prentice, social conservative candidate Craig Chandler, and Red Tory Nova Scotia MP Scott Brison, painted MacKay as a status quo or " establishment " candidate who could effectively question the Prime Minister.

An example of this is independent MP Gordon Copeland being aligned with New Zealand's Labour Party-led government in matters of confidence and supply for the 2005-2008 term, but voting along social conservative lines in other matters.

One of the rare exceptions of a pure conservative in this party was former party member and MP Vasco Pulido Valente, who is highly elitist and a cultural purist ( unlike most of the party's partisans, who have various degrees of populism or meritocratism ), highly conservative and traditionalist.

On top of her income as an MP, she is paid over £ 5, 000 a year for articles in the Daily Telegraph, a conservative newspaper, and over £ 15, 000 a year for her campaigning work on behalf of the Countryside Alliance, a rural pressure group.

Paul Clark first became MP for Gillingham in the Labour landslide in the 1997 general election where he overturned a conservative majority of 16, 638.

Several credible political figures, including Manitoba Tory cabinet minister Brian Pallister, Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, former Reform MP Stephen Harper, and the retiring PC Party president Michael Fortier were all encouraged to run as Unite the Right candidates by both sides of the conservative divide in the 1998 Progressive Conservative leadership convention.

He is the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for South Holland and The Deepings, and a member of the socially conservative Cornerstone Group.

In the 1999 provincial election, Romanow's NDP received slightly less popular support as a share of the vote than the conservative opposition Saskatchewan Party led by Elwin Hermanson, a former Reform MP.

Of these caucuses, Dunne remained the only constituency MP, while his caucus was formed from United Future's MMP party list, and consisted of MPs who are progressive on social justice issues but conservative on some moral issues.

In the fall of 2012, Canadians MP's will be voting on Private Member's Bill C-386 tabled by conservative MP James Bezan in an attempt to ban tanning beds for those under 18 years of age, and strengthen warning labels on tanning beds for Canadians of all ages.

* Bunter appears in the Viz cartoon strip ' Baxter Basics ' ( the title spoofing a slogan of the Conservative Party, ' Back to Basics ') as Sir William Bunter, conservative MP for Greyfriars Central.

Vellacott continued to support socially conservative causes as a Canadian Alliance MP, and was a vocal opponent of embryonic stem-cell research in 2002, although he supports adult stem cell research.

* Also in June 2008, Bob Randall, a former South Australian Liberal MP and party president joined the party, complaining that the Liberal Party had drifted too far to the " left ", and that " Family First is the only truly conservative political force now left in Australia ".

Contrary to the public perception of him being conservative, he voted while an MP for gay rights and abortion on demand and against hanging.

As a conservative he was Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Northumberland North from 1865 to 1868.

* Angus Claude Macdonell ( 1861 – 1924 ), Canadian conservative MP for Toronto South

* Angus Ronald Macdonald ( 1901 – 1970 ), Canadian conservative MP for Antigonish — Guysborough