An MP is someone prepared to open bazaars, kiss sticky babies, challenge wrongs that can never be righted. This is the profession more often quoted - he will claim misquoted - than any other. He is the man all blame in a crisis yet whom in times of plenty no one thanks. What than prompts a man to become an MP? Tonight's film looks at one such man from a by-election in June 1968, and then through his first year in Parliament. The tiredness, the frustrations, the worrying over other's worries, the rewards: how he reacts is shown in this film.

(Colour)