Sir George has some experience of the government whips office, serving there in 1990 and also acting as an opposition whip under Margaret Thatcher before she became prime minister in 1979.

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Having just celebrated his first anniversary as the Conservative MP for Tamworth, he will also be with me live in the studio, as will the Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak and Opposition Whip, Steve McCabe.

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When I became opposition chief whip in 2001 the Fees Office informed me that I was now a paid office holder and I was deemed to live in London as my main home whether or not that was the case.

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