Allender Steele Adams (16 February 1946 – 5 September 1990), known as Allen Adams, was a Scottish Labour politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Paisley from 1979 to 1983 and Paisley North from 1983 to 1990.
In a notable speech on 31 March 1988, he described Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons as having "behaved towards Scotland with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor", a remark immediately withdrawn, as is the custom in the Commons.
[3] Adams died on 5 September 1990 at the age of 44 from a brain hemorrhage.
[4] In the by-election that followed his death, his widow Irene Adams, succeeded him as MP for Paisley North.
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