He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich at the October 1974 general election and held the seat until the 1987 general election, when, against the national trend, he lost his seat to the Conservative Michael Irvine.
In 1992, however, Irvine lost the seat back to Labour's Jamie Cann.
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