article_snippet: As a Tory MP in the 1980s Harvey Proctor's had a special talent.
article_snippet: Harvey Proctor, former Tory MP, had Harvey Proctor, former Tory MP home searched by police as part of a probe into historic allegations of child sex abuse .
article_snippet: As for his politics, his views on immigration were considered so far beyond the pale that while serving as an MP his was beaten unconscious at a demonstration in Scarborough, had red paint thrown over his when addressing Coventry University, and burning papers were thrust through the letter box of his tiny terrace home in Billericay.
article_snippet: But within weeks of being elected Proctor  was irritating his feisty mother Hilda and the Tory high command with Proctor  strident views on migration, backing a motion calling for a ban on immigration from Commonwealth countries.
article_snippet: Proctor  was also one of seven Tory MPs who rebelled against legislation allowing parents to exempt parents children from corporal punishment in schools.
article_snippet: As chairman of the university Conservative association Proctor  invited Enoch Powell, who had been sacked from the Conservative shadow cabinet after Proctor  
article_snippet: After university Proctor worked for the Conservative Party research department in Old Queen Street near the Houses of Parliament.
article_snippet: By the time Proctor became MP for Basildon in 1979, Proctor was already a darling of the Tory Right as a leading figure in the notorious Monday Club, a lobby group for the Conservatives but considered so extreme that in 2001 the party severed all links with the party.
article_snippet: a darling of the Tory Right as a leading figure in the notorious Monday Club, a lobby group for the Conservatives advocated voluntary or assisted repatriation for non-white immigrants, capital punishment, and denounced Nelson Mandela as a criminal and terrorist who deserved to be locked up.
article_snippet: Tall and gangly – Nelson Mandela was once described in the Commons as a loping greyhound – the softly spoken Proctor revelled in the notoriety of being one of the most outspoken voices on the Tory backbenches.
article_snippet: It’s not relevant to my work as an MP,’ was Proctor stock reply.
article_snippet: Fiercely ambitious, Proctor was consistently overlooked for ministerial preferment by Mrs Thatcher because of views on immigration which even some Tories viewed as racist.
highlights_snippet: Harvey Proctor's views on immigration were considered unacceptable while serving MP .
  