support and had to put up with 30 years of politics. Being an MP really is a full-on job, but I have never regretted entering politics and I have been fortunate to have a very good team around me, especially Kate and the Conservative Association, both locally and in Westminster.”

MP Sir Julian Brazier with wife Kate whose support, he says, has been vital to his job

Mr Brazier has held numerous government and shadow government posts, including membership of the defence select committee.

In 1996 he was the Spectator Parliamentary Backbencher of the Year for campaigns defending marriage and amending legislation to sell off MoD housing to protect service families.

He was also founding co-chairman of the All Party Adoption Group – established to get children languishing in state care adopted– and more recently Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of Defence, with responsibility for the Reserve Forces.

But despite his popularity at the ballot box, Mr Brazier regularly comes under fire on social media, with people questioning his commitment to local issues.

He has faced criticism for his more controversial views, which saw him vote against same-sex marriage.

He also recently supported air strikes against Isis in Syria and voted against a plan to allow 3,000 of people from the Calais 'jungle' into the UK, many of whom he believed were not children but young men and not Syrian.

But he did supportgovernment’s plans to bring in 3,000 unaccompanied Syrian child refugees from the camps in Lebanon and Syria to the UK and visited one of the charities in Beirut