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Journalists who dealt with him begged to differ.
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Dorries, educated at Halewood Grange Comprehensive, Liverpool, worked in nursing and then business before becoming an MP.
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Although a self-declared "rebel", Dorries cited Jesus as her hero in a survey.
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The one-time president of Middlesex Poly's students' union then went on to be the Lib Dems' chair of campaigns and communications for the 1997 General Election.
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Lib Dem MP for Winchester
Former PR man Mark Oaten's fall from grace has been spectacular.
The 42-year-old MP - who as a 22-year-old member of the SDP became one of the country's youngest councillors in 1986 - portrayed himself as a family man until revelations in the News of the World that he visited rent boys over a six-month period in 2004 and 2005.Since then he has rarely been out of the news - often talking with his wife about efforts to save their marriage.
He was a PR consultant at Shandwick from 1988-1992, and then joined Westminster Communications.
LORD LAIRD OF ARTIGARVAN
Crossbench
Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird of Artigarvan is a former bank official, bank inspector and computer programmer.He then entered public relations as a humble consultant in 1973.
From 1976 to 2005 he was chairman of John Laird Public Relations.Today, Lord Laird is visiting professor of public relations at the University of Ulster.
SION SIMON
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The Oxford University graduate first worked as a senior manager at Guinness - which included a brief stint in public relations - before becoming a journalist and working for the Daily Telegraph, News of the World and The Spectator as an associate editor.From 1990 to 1993, Simon worked as a research assistant to George Robertson MP.He was elected to Parliament in June 2001.
According to theyworkforyou. com's analysis of Simon's voting record, he is very strongly for foundation hospitals; the Iraq war; and equal rights for homosexuals.
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The son of life peer Lord Vaizey of Greenwich and Marina Vaizey, an art historian, 38-year-old Ed Vaizey has been described as "the youngest ever Tory grandee".
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Lib Dem MEP for South West England and Gibraltar
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Lib Dem spokesman for Culture, Media and Sport
A former company secretary and legal adviser at Kingfisher plc, Lord Clement-Jones then became director of Political Context, a public affairs consultancy specialising in social and environmental issues for clients including BAE.He is chairman of leading law firm Dibb Lupton Alsop's government relations practice, DLA Upstream.
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Paul Tyler worked as managing director of the Cornwall Courier Newspaper Group in the late Seventies, then was chief executive and then chair of PR company Good Relations' public affairs division.
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Music-lovers take control