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David Amess
Sir David Amess was a Conservative MP from 1983, firstly for Basildon then Southend West. He was actively involved with legislation involving animal welfare and up until the collapse of the ‘Red Wall’ in the December 2019 general election was one of the very few working-class Tory MPs in the House of Commons.