From the DAILY TELEGRAPH'S Top hundred right wing politicians

. FRANK FIELD
Labour MP for Birkenhead
It may be odd to include a Labour MP on a right wingers list, but Field holds great influence over the development of Conservative policy on pensions and social security issues. Attempts have been made to tempt him to defect, so far without effect.

From a constituency member
“He has always got his own way so this is sort of like throwing his toys out the pram because things haven’t been going the way he likes recently,” says the 50-year-old. “There were times in the past where I thought he was actually a Conservative – you just couldn’t tell the difference with some of the stuff he was coming out with about immigration. This is about career politics, not about us locally.”

Personal sdviser to Margaret Thatcher
"Two nights before the Conservative Party leadership election in November 1990, he visited then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. He advised her that her time as Prime Minister was drawing to a close and that she should back John Major to take over the role. His reason for doing so was that he felt that her Conservative colleagues would not tell her straight that she could not win a leadership contest. Following this meeting, he was smuggled out of Downing Street's back door. Two days later Margaret Thatcher supported John Major for the post, and Major went on to become Prime Minister.[12]"
Jim Carroll