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Born in Gosport, Sir Peter Viggers served because the city’s MP for 36 years
The Conservative MP who infamously filed an bills declare for a floating backyard duck island has died aged 82.
Sir Peter Viggers was MP for Gosport in Hampshire from 1974 till 2010 and had been identified with motor neurone illness.
Caroline Dinenage, his successor within the seat, stated he had been “passionate” in regards to the space.
He was requested to resign when it emerged he had claimed £1,645 for the decorative duck island.
Sir Peter died on 19 March, though information of his dying has solely simply emerged.
He was born in Gosport, went to highschool in Portsmouth and studied historical past and legislation at Cambridge.
Sir Peter entered the Home of Commons in 1974 and served as a junior minister within the Northern Eire Workplace below Margaret Thatcher within the 1980s.
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The floating Stockholm duck home turned emblematic of the bills scandal
The Conservative chief of Gosport Borough Council, Mark Hook, stated: “I definitely bear in mind him working extraordinarily exhausting for the individuals of Gosport.
“He was definitely was an amazing advocate to maintain the MoD and the navy in place in Gosport, and at all times fought to make sure the armed forces have been taken care of.”
Ms Dinenage stated: “I used to be saddened to listen to the information that my predecessor, Sir Peter Viggers, has misplaced his courageous battle with motor neurone illness.
“Born and bred right here, he was obsessed with this space and its individuals. My ideas are together with his household.”
In the course of the bills scandal when the Each day Telegraph revealed a whole lot of MPs’ claims, it emerged Sir Peter had filed a £1,645 receipt for a floating Stockholm duck home plus £30,000 in different gardening prices.
He was requested to resign by then occasion chief David Cameron and later described himself as “ashamed and humiliated” by his declare, which was rejected by the Commons authorities.
He stated his geese had “by no means appreciated” the island and it was later auctioned, elevating £1,700 for Macmillan Most cancers Assist.
Sir Peter was additionally criticised by relations of sufferers who died after being given opiate medicine at Gosport Struggle Memorial Hospital between 1987 and 2001.
He repeatedly questioned the money and time being spent on the investigation into overdoses which have been later discovered to have induced the deaths of as much as 656 sufferers.