Piers Merchant
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Daily Mail | September 25, 2009
Tory sleaze MP Piers Merchant dies of cancer with the wife who stood by him after sex scandal at his bedside
...work for the London Chamber of Commerce. He became chief executive of the United Kingdom Independence Party in 2004 and took over the running its campaign in the Hartlepool by-election that year. Merchant arranged for the controversial and...
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Wikipedia | August 30, 2009
Beckenham (UK Parliament constituency)
...seat for the Conservatives by just over 1,000 votes. Piers Merchant was MP for Beckenham between 1992 and his resignation in 1997 and was generally regarded as a good constituency MP. He is now an active member of UKIP . Between 1957 and...
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | September 23, 2009
Piers Merchant dies from cancer aged 57
...57 Piers Merchant, the former Tory MP who quit over a sex scandal, has died after a short illness. Piers Merchant, who died on Monday Having resigned shortly before the 1997 election after his affair with a 17-year-old researcher was...
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Tory sex sleaze MP Piers Merchant dies of cancer aged 58
...was elected to Newcastle Central in 1983 but lost the seat in 1987. After resigning his seat in 1997, he went to work for the London Chamber of Commerce. He became chief executive of the United Kingdom Independence Party in 2004...
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Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant (born 2 January 1951) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Beckenham, but resigned in October 1997.
Before he became an MP he was a journalist and marketing officer. Merchant was from Nottingham and studied at the University of Durham and was Senior Man of University College's JCR. He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1983 general election, for the Newcastle Central constituency, but lost his seat at the June 1987 general election. He stood for Beckenham at the 1992 general election and won.
His resignation was caused by renewed allegations that he was sleeping with his researcher, which he had previously denied in March 1997. He was then caught by the The Sun canoodling with a 17-year-old nightclub hostess on a park bench in South East London in 1997, while his wife Helen was out canvassing for him. Blonde Anna Cox later told how he wanted to have sex in the open and she performed “a sex act” on him . MPs cannot technically resign; instead he took the offices of Steward of the Manor of Northstead, which automatically led to his disqualification.
In the 2004 European Parliament election, Merchant stood for the UK Independence Party in the North East England constituency, at the top of their party list. He was not elected.
In 2005, Merchant permanently moved to Torrington in North Devon. Merchant is also a member of Mensa.
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