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Peter Tapsell is a great speaker and full of hilarious anecdotes.
Archive 2004-03-01 2004
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Conservative Party lawmaker Peter Tapsell said he recalled law enforcement officers in Washington D.C. in 1971 rounding up anti-Vietnam war demonstrators and imprisoning them in a sports stadium.
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It was none other than Sir Peter Tapsell, the most celebrated statesman of our age.
Sherlock Holmes and the case of William Hague's missing mojo 2011
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Sir Peter Tapsell – another Lincolnshire Tory grandee, but one who has had the sense not to cross the floor – raised the conflict in Afghanistan and asked what “the continuing justification for sacrificing more British lives in this unwinnable war” is.
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David Cameron summed up the most tempestuous three weeks of his premiership by quoting veteran Conservative MP, Sir Peter Tapsell: "In my 52 years in Parliament, I have never known a prime minister more adept at getting out of scrapes – but I have never known a prime minister who got into so many scrapes."
David Cameron says he has learned his lesson – but has he? | Andrew Rawnsley 2011
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Tapsell asked Cameron if London's Wembley Stadium, the country's showpiece soccer arena, could be used.
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For there rose in his pomp Sir Peter Tapsell, the Father of the House, and a panjandrum who makes the average double-breasted MP look like Norman Wisdom on a bad day.
Comprehensive spending review: Now for the bonfire of the civilians Simon Hoggart 2010
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But they were preceded by Sir Peter Tapsell, the grandest headbanger of them all.
The Eurosceptics have taken over the asylum | Simon Hoggart's sketch 2011
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But if Mr Hoban thought he was safe, he must have trembled when Sir Peter Tapsell arose in his place.
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But if Mr Hoban thought he was safe, he must have trembled when Sir Peter Tapsell arose in his place.
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