At the 1979 general election he stood for election to the House of Commons in the safe Conservative seat of Louth against the Conservative MP Michael Brotherton and lost.
He was also a supporter of Ian Smith in Rhodesia and urged the government not to make a deal with the "terrorists" including Robert Mugabe.
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He voted against a rise in petrol duty which was proposed by Geoffrey Howe in the 1981 budget.
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During the Common Market referendum of 1975, Brotherton strongly attacked Edward du Cann who made a last minute anti-Market speech; Brotherton declared that du Cann "requires either psychiatric treatment or lessons in simple arithmetic".
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Early in January 1976 he challenged James Callaghan, then Foreign Secretary, to substantiate Sheila Cassidy's claim that she had been tortured in Chile before making any protest to the Chilean government.
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