Terry Fields

[2] Despite eye problems (which caused him to wear dark glasses),[2] he became a fireman and later a Fire Brigades Union activist.[5] This was a new seat, but it was estimated by the BBC and ITN that had it been fought at the previous election in 1979 it would have returned a Conservative MP with a majority of 565.[6] In line with Militant policy, he promised during his campaign that, if he was elected, he would be "a workers' MP on a worker's wage", a promise he kept by drawing only the equivalent of a fireman's wages and donating the balance of his MP's salary to trade union causes and, according to Doris Heffer, "to the party causes or, frankly, also to the coffers of Militant Tendency.[7] His interventions in Parliament focused on issues unique to Liverpool as well as Central America, unemployment, and the coal mining and maritime transport industries.[5] In 2002, at the age of 65, he returned briefly to the limelight after entering a burning house to rescue a woman trapped inside.
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