David Wilshire, who has died aged 80, was a Conservative MP on the libertarian Right of the party who represented the Surrey constituency of Spelthorne from 1987 to 2010. He took over from Humphrey Atkins, Margaret Thatcher’s first Northern Ireland Secretary, and handed the seat on to Kwasi Kwarteng, who would be Liz Truss’s short-lived Chancellor.
It’s unquestionable that Ireland needs a Section 28. The architect of it died recently. A bit anti Irish. But what a hero
On the eve of the 1983 election he went for Thanet North, but lost out to Roger Gale. Selected f…