Image copyright Getty Images This year saw the loss of two heavyweights from the Thatcher era, Cecil Parkinson and Jim Prior, who had contrasting relationships with the prime minister. But they weren"t the only former MPs to pass away in 2015. Read part one and part two.
Cecil Parkinson: 1 September 1932 – 26 January 2016 Image copyright PA One of Margaret Thatcher"s closest confidantes throughout the 1980s, Cecil Parkinson was one of the nearly men of British politics.
Tipped as a possible successor to the prime minister, the married father of three resigned from the cabinet during the Conservative conference in October 1983 after it emerged that his secretary Sarah Keays was carrying his child – a daughter, Flora, who was born in 1984.
Although he returned to government four years later and remained an influential figure in Tory circles, his chance of attaining the highest offices had gone and he left the Commons at the 1992 election – however he later took a seat in the H..
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