Neil Thorne
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Sir Neil Gordon Thorne (born 8 August 1932) is a British Conservative Party politician. He contested the constituency of Ilford South six times from October 1974 to 1997, and was the Member of Parliament for the seat from 1979 to 1992, when he lost by 402 votes to Labour's Mike Gapes.
In 1989, Thorne founded the Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme, which aims to improve the quality of debate on military issues, and does this by exposing Members of Parliament to first-hand experience of the armed forces.[1]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Calvert, Jonathan; Rowell, Andy (31 August 2008). "Tory MP Douglas Carswell 'punished' for damning army kit". The Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4641398.ece.
[edit] References
- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1992 and 1997 editions
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source?][better source needed]
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