Political Career
He was Member of Parliament for Harlow in Essex from 1983. He served on the Health and Heritage Select Committees and was a Parliamentary Private Secretary in the Northern Ireland Office and the Department of Environment. He introduced a number of Acts including the Sexual Offences Act, the Nurse Prescribing Act and the Video Recordings Act. Hayes lost his seat in 1997 to the Labour Party in the 1997 general election.
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“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
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