In more than two decades in Parliament, the Swansea-born MP - who came out as gay to a Sunday newspaper in 2010 - has held some senior posts in the party.
Robert Kilroy-Silk was an independent MEP during his jungle stint in 2008, but Opik was an ex-MP by the time he appeared in 2010's I'm a Celebrity.
In more than two decades in Parliament, the Swansea-born MP has held some senior posts in the party.
If you drew a line between these former efforts, MojoPlay's 9.2-inch, 800 x 640, MP-920XB Gaming LCD would be somewhere in the middle: it beats the JoyTech in the style and price departments, and even though the Xbox 360 laptop looks way cooler in comparison, the fact that more than one MP-920XB exists makes the decision moot.
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Mr Knapman took over the role of leader in 2002, but in 2004, a new pretender to the crown - former Labour MP and chat show host Robert Kilroy-Silk - arrived in a flurry of publicity to shake things up once again.
Rochdale's MP has called for an inquiry into the role of MI5 in a potential "cover-up" of alleged abuse by former MP Cyril Smith in the 1960s.
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He noted that the Tories had but one MP in Scotland - David Mundell, deputy to the Lib Dem Scottish Secretary.
Mr Woodward's father-in-law, former Tory MP and minister Sir Timothy Sainsbury, issued a statement expressing his regret at the MP's decision to leave the party, but sympathising with his views on Europe.
Earlier in the House of Commons, Conservative MP John Redwood - who served alongside Mr Clarke in John Major's Cabinet - suggested that the UK had been reduced to an "e-mail democracy" by Brussels.
In Wales, it looks as if every single Tory MP - all eight of them - will vote in the opposite lobby to their party leader.
If her expulsion from the Parliamentary Conservative Party is made permanent she could continue to sit in the Commons as an independent MP or join another party - she has hinted in the past that she has sympathies with the UK Independence Party.
The decision to transport the ships - confirmed in July - has also been condemned by Green Party activists in the North East, Liberal Democrat MP for Berwick, Alan Beith, and the party's environment spokesman Norman Baker.
In 1998 Tory MP David Prior - son of former cabinet minister James (now Lord) Prior - confessed he had smoked cannabis as a young man.
Margaret Thatcher had originally planned to go into politics, but she had soon found that the prospects for a female MP in the then-male dominated world of Westminster were far from enticing.
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People in Northern Ireland may not have heard of the MP, but he is well-known in political circles.
To be fair to the former home secretary and Labour member for Norwich South, he was key to securing the A11 development - in a cross-party allegiance with Richard Spring, the former Conservative MP for West Suffolk.
Respect's Yvonne Ridley, a former Fleet Street journalist and now anti-war campaigner, has been touring the town in an open-topped bus with the indefatigable Bradford West MP George Galloway at her side.
West Mercia Police Federation chairman Ken Mackaill - one of three representatives who met the Tory MP for 45 minutes in his Sutton Coldfield constituency office - said Mr Mitchell had "no option but to resign" after refusing to give details of exactly what he said in his outburst.
Labour has shortlisted two women to fight the by-election in Rotherham to replace disgraced MP Denis MacShane.
Conservative MP John Gummer - in whose Suffolk constituency Elliott was born - visited Texas last week to try and persuade the authorities to delay the execution.
"ECMO and heart surgery go hand-in-hand", said the Conservative MP.
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Mr McGuinness was elected MP for Mid-Ulster in 1997, but he has never taken his seat in Westminster.
Labour's Andrew Dismore is a former MP for Hendon, in north-west London.
The visit comes a week from polling day in the by-election triggered by Liberal Democrat MP Chris Huhne's resignation following his guilty plea to perverting the course of justice.
Mr Prowse was invited to the Commons by Mr Duncan after he was filmed digging a pound-shaped hole in the Rutland and Melton MP's lawn in protest at his expenses claims.
To reverse the vote, the Conservatives would have to rope in almost every non-Labour or Lib Dem MP, and I don't think the Scottish or Welsh nationalists, or many of the Northern Ireland parties are going to play ball.
And following the decision of Martin McGuinness to resign as an MP in order to avoid so-called "double-jobbing", by holding a seat in both the House of Commons and the Northern Ireland Assembly, a by-election is also expected in his Mid Ulster constituency.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the MP - touted by some as a future leadership candidate - said the coalition "is about to enter the last chance saloon" and must consider a radical programme of tax cuts, including phasing out employers' national insurance contributions.
He said he had bought the London home in 1991, before becoming an MP and had his tax declaration checked when he sold it in 2006 - he said HMRC had confirmed there was no liability for CGT.
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