Political Career
Rupert Allason contested Kettering (1979) and Battersea (1983) before being elected as Conservative MP for Torbay in 1987.
He was opposed to ceding greater power to Brussels, in 1993 he was the only Tory who refused to vote for the Maastricht Treaty when it was made into a motion of confidence. The vote was narrowly won but Allason's abstention caused him to have the party whip withdrawn for a year. He left parliament after the landslide 1997 general election, when he lost his seat by a margin of just twelve votes to Liberal Democrat Adrian Sanders. In 2000, Allason was reported to have considered joining the UK Independence Party (UKIP).
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