Former Tory MP Teresa Gorman Dies Aged 83

Bold and brassy, colourful and controversial, she made the current Tory extrovert Nadine Dorries look like a shrinking violet. Teresa Gorman, the Eurosceptic firebrand who was Tory MP for Billericay from 1987 to 2001 and a scourge of John Major and his shaky government of the 1990s, has died, aged 83. When she applied to succeed the equally colourful and controversial Harvey Proctor - in the news again earlier this week - as MP for the Essex seat, she lied about her age to boost her prospects.