M.P.

M.P. (plural M.P's or M.P.'s or M.P.s)

1. Alternative form of MP
   • 1953 April 15, “Sir Will wears the traditional topper”, in Daily Record, number 17,948, page 3:

     ONLY two M.P.s among the early arrivals sported the traditional silk topper when the Commons resumed yesterday after the Easter recess to hear Mr. R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer, open his second Budget. The “be-toppered” members were Sir William Darling (C., South Edinburgh) and Mr. Gerald Nabarro (C., Kidderminster).

   • 1956 June 3, “Alastair Forbes Surveys the World Political Scene”, in Sunday Dispatch, 155th year, number 8,061, page 8:

     “If M.P.s,” declared the new political commentatrix, “can’t find anything else except Debbery for question time, then the nation is in a bad way.”

   • 1961 July 7, “Black Temper”, in Time‎, archived from the original on 2012-02-03:

     So complex was the scheme that neither blacks nor whites could say for certain who had won. "A dog's breakfast," cried Laborite M.P. James Callaghan. "I say frankly that I do not begin to understand it."