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On 25 November 2010, a week after the announcement of his intended peerage, Flight apologised after suggesting that the government's changes to child benefits would "discourage the middle classes from breeding, but for those on benefits there is every incentive".
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Conservative candidate by then-party leader Michael Howard, and removed from his role as party deputy chairman, and his party began the process of selecting a new last-minute candidate.
318:(2005). He has been married to Christabel since 1974; they have four children: Kitty, Thomas, Josie and Maryanne. His wife, entitled to be known as Lady Flight, was previously a councillor representing Warwick ward on
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that month withdrew the party whip, and announced that Flight was no longer an approved candidate and could not contest the
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treatment", referring to the suspension of that association for refusing to deselect Adrian Hilton. Amid speculation, Flight confirmed that he would not stand as an
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