Mp Takes a Master Class in Working ; a Day in the Life of an Mp Frank Field in the First of an Occasional Series Focusing On Our Mps, Mike Chapple Spends a Day with Birkenhead Representative, Frank Field

Daily PostMay 30, 2006

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FRANK FIELD'S 27 years of learning as MP for Birkenhead have come from what he calls his "tutorials".

These are the regular Fridays and weekends when he returns to his modest semi-detached home in Rock Ferry and where the teachings come neither from himself, nor the academics, but the ordinary people of his constituency.

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Mp Takes a Master Class in Working ; a Day in the Life of an Mp Frank Field in the First of an Occasional Series Focusing On Our Mps, Mike Chapple Spends a Day with Birkenhead Representative, Frank Field

"My job is to represent Birkenhead in Westminster, not represent Westminster in Birkenhead," said the 63-year-old MP who has one of the highest voting records in the House of Commons.

"I'm always surprised when I'm in a meeting with ministers and they say 'where did you get that information from' and I'll just say I got it from talking to people on the street.

"Half the time, if ministers haven't ...

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