Member of Parliament
The following year, he was elected to the failed Northern Ireland Assembly, as a representative for the same constituency. At the 1983 general election he was returned to the House of Commons as the Member of Parliament, again for the same constituency. Two years later, along with the rest of his Unionist colleagues, he resigned his seat in protest at the Anglo-Irish Agreement, but was re-elected in the subsequent by-election. He continued his protest by refusing to pay his car tax, for which he was sentenced to seven days' imprisonment in 1987.
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