He resigned from his post as chief whip in October following a media backlash.
He is also deputy government chief whip and Lib Dem chief whip in the House of Lords.
All of which leaves the Chief Whip in his job but still in a very bad place indeed.
If elected he would not take any party whip in parliament and would have a "free hand", he pledged.
His bullish character saw him promoted to be his party's chief whip in 1975 under the then leader Jeremy Thorpe.
The use of the whip in horse racing has been a source of controversy in recent years, notably in Britain.
Their best chance came when pacy Daniels twisted and turned down the left wing to whip in a dangerous low cross.
Mr Mitchell was moved to chief whip in Mr Cameron's government reshuffle last month, having served as international development secretary since 2010.
The BBC understands the Lib Dem chief whip in the Lords, Lord Newby, spoke to Lord Stoneham to warn him over his conduct.
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He said he would give up the Tory whip in the Lords but remain a Conservative Party member if confirmed as BBC Trust chairman.
He was made a Conservative government whip in 1989, but admitted that he missed the broadcasting appearances no longer open to someone in that role.
Easterlin, carrying a large black purse, and Freedman, whip in hand like a refugee from the Kit Kat Klub in "Cabaret, " indulged in similar nonstop sexual innuendo.
That prompted Tory leader to describe her as the first chief whip in history to put the prime minister in the frame for losing a key vote.
Peter Temple-Morris, MP for Leominster, and a pro-European, resigned the Tory whip in November 1997 and sat as an independent before defecting to Labour in June last year.
Some MPs are complaining about the parties applying the whip in a backbench debate - although on an issue of this magnitude it doesn't seem to be entirely unreasonable.
Expect a 3.00 ERA and 1.22 WHIP in 45 innings for the rest of the season, making his value comparable to those of Francisco Liriano, Dallas Braden, and Hiroki Kuroda.
Rep. Roy Blunt, the Republican whip in the House of Representatives, said the weekend controversy over the Der Spiegel interview was itself a sign of progress in the war in Iraq.
But the party's chief whip in the Commons, Alistair Carmichael, insisted on Saturday that the party was "in a much better condition than people in the press would ever want the general public to know".
The Tory MP, who himself resigned as chief whip in October over allegations he called police officers "plebs", told Radio 4's Today programme that Mr Evans had been his friend and colleague for 20 years.
The former Fulham man had plenty of time to whip in a dangerous inswinging cross which Bramble could only divert into his own goal, as the ball skidded off his forehead past Wigan keeper Chris Kirkland.
"I decided to (be) a hip old lady" -- one who had a wicked sense of humor, the kind of person who was married 12 times and cracked a whip in a ward of cardiac patients.
One sign of the impending storm is the much-remarked appointment as a Labour whip in the Lords of the legendary bruiser Tommy McAvoy - who has a fearsome reputation from his days as a Commons whip.
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The constitutional reform, designed by a group of academics and politicians, was nursed through the Knesset by the late Yitzhak Rabin (with Mr Netanyahu, then a backbencher, defying his Likud party's whip in order to support it).
One MEP who lost the party whip in March after refusing to sit in its parliamentary group, Nikki Sinclaire, has driven to Torquay to park a brightly coloured signwritten van conspicuously lacking UKIP's branding, outside the conference centre.
Smiles were brought to the face of Tories inside the Treasury when the little known Lord Tunnicliffe, Labour's Deputy Chief Whip in the Lords, made the mistake of assuming that no-one listens to what's said in the House of Lords.
When I became opposition chief whip in 2001 the Fees Office informed me that I was now a paid office holder and I was deemed to live in London as my main home whether or not that was the case.
Lord Grocott, who was chief whip in the Lords from 2002-08, under the last Labour government, spoke as peers resumed debate on the Queen's Speech on 14 May 2012, with the House of Lords Reform Bill receiving the lion's share of attention.
Lib Dem committee member Paul Tyler put it well when he expressed the group's dismay that good chairmen often gave up their jobs to become "junior whip in charge of bottle washing" because it was more likely to boost their chances of ministerial posts.
Exasperated, he starts hitting out again, wielding his many-thonged whip in an effort to part the flood of humanity, futilely harrying a group of old men as insensible to his blows as they are to the sobs of a little girl lost in the crowd.
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