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Barry Legg

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Barry Charles Legg (born 30 May 1949) was the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Milton Keynes South West from 1992 until the 1997 general election when he was defeated by Labour's Phyllis Starkey. [1]

63 relations: Accountant, Audit Commission (United Kingdom), BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Two, Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament constituency), Bruges Group (United Kingdom), Chartered accountant, Chief Whip, City A.M., Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Way Forward, Council house, Councillor, Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, Euroscepticism, Financial Times, Golden handshake, Granta, Hansard, Hartley's, High-rise building, Homes for votes scandal, Housing Benefit, Iain Duncan Smith, Inheritance Tax in the United Kingdom, Labour Party (UK), Life peer, Local Government Chronicle, Maastricht Rebels, Member of parliament, Michael Spicer, Milton Keynes South West (UK Parliament constituency), Mortgage interest relief at source, National Insurance, No Turning Back (political group), Nothing Like a Dame, Paddington, Phyllis Starkey, Premier Foods, Scotland on Sunday, Shirley Porter, Smart card, State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme, Tax advisor, Thatcherism, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Herald (Glasgow), The Independent, ..., The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Times, Today (BBC Radio 4), Typhoo, Unemployment benefits, United Kingdom, United Kingdom general election, 1983, United Kingdom general election, 1992, United Kingdom general election, 1997, University of Manchester, Westminster City Council, 2 Sisters Food Group. Expand index (13 more) »

Accountant

An accountant is a practitioner of accounting or accountancy, which is the measurement, disclosure or provision of assurance about financial information that helps managers, investors, tax authorities and others make decisions about allocating resource(s).

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Audit Commission (United Kingdom)

The Audit Commission was a statutory corporation in the United Kingdom.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Bishop Auckland (UK Parliament constituency)

Bishop Auckland is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2005 by Helen Goodman of the Labour Party.

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Bruges Group (United Kingdom)

The Bruges Group is a Eurosceptic think tank based in the United Kingdom.

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Chartered accountant

Chartered Accountants were the first accountants to form a professional accounting body, initially established in Scotland in 1854.

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Chief Whip

The Chief Whip is a political office in some legislatures whose task is to administer the whipping system that tries to ensure that members of the party attend and vote as the party leadership desires.

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City A.M.

City A.M. is a free, business-focused newspaper distributed in and around London, England.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Conservative Way Forward

Conservative Way Forward (CWF) is a British pressure and campaigning group, which is Thatcherite in its outlook and agenda.

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Council house

A council house is a form of public or social housing built by local municipalities in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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Councillor

A Councillor is a member of a local government council.

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Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland

Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, PC, DL (born 25 June 1937) was the British member of Parliament for Bishop Auckland, County Durham from 1979 to 2005.

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Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism (also known as EU-scepticism) means criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a Japanese-owned (since 2015), English-language international daily newspaper headquartered in London, with a special emphasis on business and economic news.

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Golden handshake

A golden handshake is a clause in an executive employment contract that provides the executive with a significant severance package in the case that the executive loses their job through firing, restructuring, or even scheduled retirement.

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Granta

Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story’s supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world.".

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Hansard

Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Hartley's

Hartley's is a brand of marmalades, jams and jellies, originally from the United Kingdom, which is manufactured at Histon, Cambridgeshire.

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High-rise building

A high-rise building is a tall building, as opposed to a low-rise building and is defined by its height differently in various jurisdictions.

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Homes for votes scandal

The Homes for votes scandal was a political scandal in the United Kingdom which involved the selling off of council housing to potential Conservative voters by Westminster City Council.

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Housing Benefit

Housing Benefit is a means tested social security benefit in the United Kingdom that is intended to help meet housing costs for rented accommodation.

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Iain Duncan Smith

George Iain Duncan Smith (born 9 April 1954), often referred to by his initials IDS, is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Inheritance Tax in the United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom, Inheritance Tax is a transfer tax.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom.

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Life peer

In the United Kingdom, life peers are appointed members of the peerage whose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.

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Local Government Chronicle

The Local Government Chronicle (LGC) is a British weekly magazine for local government officers, and is published by Metropolis.

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Maastricht Rebels

The Maastricht Rebels were British members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the then governing Conservative Party who refused to support the government of Prime Minister John Major in a series of votes in the House of Commons on the issue of the implementation of the Maastricht Treaty (Treaty on European Union) in British law.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Michael Spicer

William Michael Hardy Spicer, Baron Spicer PC (born 22 January 1943) is a British Conservative Party peer and member of the House of Lords since 2010.

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Milton Keynes South West (UK Parliament constituency)

Milton Keynes South West was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2010.

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Mortgage interest relief at source

Mortgage interest relief at source, or MIRAS, was a scheme introduced in the United Kingdom from 1983 in a bid to encourage home ownership; it allowed borrowers tax relief for interest payments on their mortgage.

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National Insurance

National Insurance (NI) is a tax system in the United Kingdom paid by workers and employers for funding state benefits.

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No Turning Back (political group)

No Turning Back is a group within the British Conservative Party advocating Thatcherite policies.

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Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame: The Scandals of Shirley Porter is a 2006 biography by British journalist Andrew Hosken.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Phyllis Starkey

Phyllis Margaret Starkey (née Williams; born 4 January 1947) is a British Labour party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Milton Keynes South West from 1997 to 2010.

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Premier Foods

Premier Foods plc is a British food manufacturer headquartered in St Albans, Hertfordshire.

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Scotland on Sunday

Scotland on Sunday is a Scottish Sunday newspaper, published in Edinburgh by The Scotsman Publications Ltd and consequently assuming the role of Sunday sister to its daily stablemate The Scotsman.

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Shirley Porter

Dame Shirley Porter, Lady Porter DBE (née Cohen; born 29 November 1930) is a British politician who led Westminster City Council in London representing the Conservative Party.

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Smart card

A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC), is any pocket-sized card that has embedded integrated circuits.

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State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme

The State Earnings Related Pension Scheme (SERPS), originally known as the State Earnings Related Pension Supplement, was a UK Government pension arrangement, to which employees and employers contributed between 6 April 1978 and 5 April 2002, when it was replaced by the State Second Pension.

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Tax advisor

A tax advisor or tax consultant is a person with advanced training and knowledge of tax law.

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Thatcherism

Thatcherism describes the conviction, economic, social and political style of the British Conservative Party politician Margaret Thatcher, who was leader of her party from 1975 to 1990.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Glasgow)

The Herald is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Sunday Telegraph

The Sunday Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper, founded in February 1961, and is published by the Telegraph Media Group, a division of Press Holdings.

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The Sunday Times

The Sunday Times is the largest-selling British national newspaper in the "quality press" market category.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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Today (BBC Radio 4)

Today, or The Today Programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, broadcast on Monday to Friday from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and 7:00 am to 9:00 am on Saturday.

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Typhoo

Typhoo is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom.

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Unemployment benefits

Unemployment benefits (depending on the jurisdiction also called unemployment insurance or unemployment compensation) are payments made by the state or other authorized bodies to unemployed people.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United Kingdom general election, 1983

The 1983 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 June 1983.

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United Kingdom general election, 1992

The 1992 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 9 April 1992, to elect 651 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom general election, 1997

The 1997 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 1 May 1997, five years after the previous election on 9 April 1992, to elect 659 members to the British House of Commons.

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University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England, formed in 2004 by the merger of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Victoria University of Manchester.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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2 Sisters Food Group

2 Sisters Food Group is a privately owned food manufacturing company based in Birmingham, England.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Legg

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