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A parliamentary outsider who goes the distance and punches well above his weight in commons
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MOST rookie MPs are too awestruck by the House of Commons to make
so much as a squeak during Prime Minister's Questions.
Not Angus Brendan MacNeil, a crofter from Barra in the Outer
Hebrides, who has come as close as any politician to bringing down a
sitting prime minister.
The SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar regularly taunts Tony Blair
across the Commons chamber, raising his fists to mimic handcuffs.
He is anything but deferential: on getting to the Commons he told
Alex Salmond, the SNP leader, : "We can shake things up here, we are
going to have a laugh."
It was Mr MacNeil's decision to ...
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