About your former Member of Parliament

Mr Francis Pym is a former MP for South East Cambridgeshire.

What you can do

• Find out more about your MP, including their voting summary and recent speeches.

Profile

Former MP for South East Cambridgeshire

Entered the House of Commons on 16 March 1961 — unknown

Left the House of Commons on 18 May 1987 — General election

Also represented Cambridgeshire

Future MPs in this constituency

• James Paice
• Lucy Frazer

Recent appearances

• Foreign Affairs 7 Apr 1987

  What an unworthy speech we have just heard. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) fancies himself as an expert on foreign affairs, but through much of his speech he trivialised matters of the utmost concern to millions of people. He showed, if I may say so, that the time has come for him to make way for a more serious figure. One of the misfortunes of contemporary British...

• Foreign Affairs 7 Apr 1987

  I am speaking particularly about the changes that we see taking place in the Soviet Union. The West has an equally clear purpose. It is to prevent the spread of Communism and to convince the Third world of the superiority in every way of our system, the essence of which is the freedom of the individual. We must convince them that in our parliamentary democracies all views count. Of course,...

• Foreign Affairs 7 Apr 1987

  I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that intervention. The Foreign Secretary is doing all that he can. However, it is a major international question. What concerned me for a long time, including when I was Foreign Secretary, was that the issue did not receive the degree of attention that it required. My final point concerns the supreme importance of keeping our electorate fully informed on...

More of Mr Francis Pym’s recent appearances