He's not standing in this election.

Bloody good constituency MP

I've read that it's a disadvantage having the speaker as your MP. How does he or she raise highly party-political issues in Parliament? Outsourcing of a NHS service to a US private company for example. Were there local examples?

I've always lived in safe Tory seats, but both my previous and current MPs got deselected (Gaulk and Greg Clark) - so feel a bit happier about that ;)