Last WWII MP dies
Updated on 20 June 2007
More4 News looks at the military experience in the Houses of Paliament following the death of the MP who served during World War II.
Piara Khabra, the Labour MP for Ealing Southall, has died at the age of 82.
The oldest Member of the House, Mr Khabra he came to Britain from India in the 1950s and in 1992 he became one of the first Asian MPs to be elected in the post-war period.
Before entering politics, he was a teacher and was actively involved in community politics as a Labour councillor and through the Indian Workers Association in Southall.
Every British Cabinet until the 1980s had ministers in it who had fought in the Second World War and every British Parliament has had MPs who had fought in that titanic struggle, until now.
Tony Blair's ministers have been among the least militarily-experienced in British history - and yet have committed the country to five wars.
