brain to keep them on message and who collectively put down women and children in the vote on lone parent benefits" -- in the previous month benefits had been reduced for this group of (mainly) women. In the 2001-2005 parliament he was the fifth-most frequent rebel on the Labour benches in divisions on government motions, and the tenth-most frequent rebel on motions put forward by his own party.

Defection

On 25 April 2005, when he was no longer an MP during the run-up to the 2005 general election,

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