Ian Montagu Fraser was a British

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 Conservative party

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 politician.

Fraser stood for Tottenham

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 in 1955

United Kingdom general election, 1955

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 and was defeated.

In the run-up to the 1959 general election

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 he tried to win the Conservative nomination for Finchley

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, but at the selection meeting was narrowly defeated by Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

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. At the election he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 for the Plymouth Sutton constituency. In his time in Parliament he became Parliamentary Private Secretary. He was narrowly re-elected at the 1964 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1964

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. However he was defeated at the 1966 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1966

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 by the Labour candidate David Owen

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, who went on to become Foreign Secretary

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