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Mr Christopher Soames

Former MP for Bedford

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11th May to 2nd June 2020

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10th June 2020 onwards

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Recent appearances

  • Oral Answers to Questions — Vietnam: Hanoi (Representations) 28 Feb 1966

    Surely the right hon. Gentleman appreciates that this is not the point? Will he tell us whether or not progress was made by the Prime Minister either on this or any other outstanding problem as a result of his visit to Moscow? In fact, the answer is "no". Is not this exactly what the right hon. Gentleman expected?

  • Oral Answers to Questions — Anglo-United Arab Republic Financial Agreement 28 Feb 1966

    This is one of the matters which we understood the hon. Gentleman was to take up on his visit to Cairo fairly recently. Has there been any improvement in the situation since his visit?

  • Oral Answers to Questions — Indonesia 28 Feb 1966

    While fully agreeing that our representation in Djakarta should be sufficient for this purpose, does not the hon. Gentleman agree that the fact that the Government in the Defence White Paper have announced that there is not to be a carrier force in the Far East after the mid '70s—

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Former MP for Bedford

Entered the House of Commons on 23 February 1950 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 10 March 1966 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

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