MP who upset Burch is a controversial figure

Rosindell, 45, is pro-capital punishment, favours a tough line on asylum seekers and is a self-styled promoter of family values.

He also has a track record of voting against equal rights for gays, especially on matters like gay marriage and adoption.

But last year, he was heavily criticised for hosting a dinner at the House of Commons for sex industry entrepeneur Savvas Christodoulou, who has donated undisclosed sums to the Tory MP.

The dinner was held during Christodoulou’s multi-million pound adult entertainment show Erotica 2010, held at the city’s Olympia venue.

Rosindell said he had done nothing wrong and had agreed to let Christodoulou hold the dinner because his business was based in his constituency.

One British Opposition MP, who asked not to be named, told the Bermuda Sun yesterday: “It doesn’t surprise me he’s upset people in Bermuda – his views are way out of line with most people in Britain these days. It’s frankly embarrassing that he’s representing what is a multi-cultural and generally tolerant country abroad.”

Famed for dressing his Staffordshire Bull Terrier Buster in a Union Jack coat, Rosindell has been a consistent promoter of what has been described as a ‘Little England’ mentality.

His overseas trips have generated controversy before — he was part of a group of MPs and peers who enjoyed a 16-day trip to the South Pacific in 2009 costing the U.K. taxpayer around £68,000.

The tour, by members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, was billed as a fact-finding exercise on climate change.

Mr. Rosindell is proud to be a working class Tory, representing the largely working class constituency of Romford, Essex, on the outskirts of London.

He is anti-European Union and was once a member of the right-wing Tory group the Monday Club, from which he was asked to resign a decade ago by then Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith.

His House of Commons voting record reveals he is against removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords and against a wholly elected upper house.

The former freelance journalist and public relations consultant entered Parliament in 2001, defeating the sitting Labour MP.

At the 2005 election, he increased his majority and won the second-highest Conservative share of the vote in the U.K.

His views are regarded as increasingly embarrassing and out-of-touch by more liberal Britons, but remain popular in his heartland. He was appointed as a Shadow Minister for Home Affairs in 2007, but was relegated to the back benches of the Commons after the Conservatives allied the party with the Liberal Democrats to oust Labour at the 2010 General Election.

He also came under fire for tabling a total of 23 questions relating to the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar after taking two trips to the territory which were paid for by the Gibraltar government.

Mr. Rosindell’s trips were registered, as required by House of Commons rules – but he failed to add the trips to the Register of Members’ Interests, potentially a serious breach of parliamentary rules.

He also became embroiled in an expenses scandal in 2009, after it was revealed he had claimed nearly £104,700 for a second home in London – despite his constituency being around 30 minutes away by train from the city centre.

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