Frank Field showed us the best an MP can be

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Saturday May 4 2024

These days we talk a lot about how hopeless, venal and corrupt our politicians are — every week seems to bring a new Westminster scandal involving an MP doing something bad that defies credulity. But they are not all like that. And in the life of Frank Field, who died this week, there is a reminder that it is possible to be a deeply moral parliamentarian dedicated to improving the lives of others.

His passing prompts another more troubling thought. Our politics have become so devalued, careerist and frenetic that it may no longer be possible for a figure such as Field — independent, ascetic, thoughtful, polite but tough — to get into the Commons and then stay there, working hard for his constituents for