Nicholas Budgen
Nicholas Budgen (
1938-
1998) was the
Conservative Party MP for
Wolverhampton South West, following
Enoch Powell's resignation from the Conservative Party. A noted maverick and intellectual, who was educated at
Cambridge University and became a
barrister before entering
Parliament. He lost the Conservative Party Whip as one of the 8
Maastricht Rebels. In
1996 he attempted to put through a Private Members Bill to make the
Bank of England independent; this became law in
1997 as one of the first things the The Labour Party (UK)Labour government did.
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