article_snippet: Some MPs courted attention through Some MPs colourful personal lives.
article_snippet: Others with their extremist political views.
article_snippet: When Labour-controlled Basildon council passed a motion of no confidence in Labour-controlled Basildon council as the local MP because of Labour-controlled Basildon council views on race, Labour-controlled Basildon council was delighted.
article_snippet: After the re-drawing of political boundaries jeopardised his majority in Basildon, his was selected for the safe neighbouring seat of Billericay, which his won convincingly at the 1983 election.
article_snippet: albeit it a very tempestuous one – with the MP.