MP, Peter Temple-Morris, publicly toyed with doing so, his decision to stay underlined the futility of this route.

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When I was in Australia a few years ago, a fellow librarian and good friend recommended Peter Temple's The Broken Shore to me.

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Peter Temple-Morris, MP for Leominster, and a pro-European, resigned the Tory whip in November 1997 and sat as an independent before defecting to Labour in June last year.

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