Teresa Gorman
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Teresa Gorman (born 1931) is a British politician, and was Conservative Member of Parliament for Billericay, in the county of Essex in England until 2001 when she stood down.
She was elected to the House in the 1987 election, and was one of the Maastricht Rebels, who nearly brought John Major's government down over the Treaty of Maastricht.
At the 1997 general election, there was a massive swing towards her opponent, but she remained MP, with a much-reduced majority of 1,536. She tried to stand for the Conservative candidacy for the Mayor of London elections in 1999, but was blocked.
Considered an able but maverick politician, Gorman was famous for her public endorsement of hormone replacement therapy, her tattooed eyebrows (she shaved them off as a teenager and they never grew back) and her belief that rapists should be castrated.Template:UK-politician-stub