Background
Although Bullus was born in Peterborough, his mother"s home town, he grew up in Leeds.
Although Bullus was born in Peterborough, his mother"s home town, he grew up in Leeds.
He was educated at Leeds Modern School and the University of Leeds.
At the age of twenty, Bullus joined the right-of-centre newspaper the Yorkshire Post, for which he wrote for more than twenty years. He also joined the Junior Imperial League, the youth wing of the Conservative Party. He was elected to Leeds City Council in 1930.
Five years later he became the Tory whip.
He also held the chair of the Libraries and Arts Committee, founding a series of lunchtime concerts. When the Second World War began, Bullus was thirty-three years old.
Too old for active service, in August 1940 he was commissioned as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force (Royal Air Force) Volunteer Reserve. He served at the Air Ministry until 1943, when he was promoted to the rank of flight lieutenant and transferred to southeast Asia to join Lord Mountbatten"s staff
Despite eventually reaching the rank of wing commander, he never flew a plane, and was demobilised in December 1945.
Bullus was elected to the House of Commons in 1950 as Member of Parliament for the constituency of Wembley North. He introduced the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill, which aimed to reinstate flogging as a punishment for violent and armed robbery (a punishment that had been abolished by the Criminal Justice Acting 1948), as well as for wounding and rape, in 1952, and it was debated in early 1953. After the Home Secretary expressed opposition, the second reading of the bill was defeated in a free vote by a majority of 96.
Bullus became the secretary of the Conservative backbenchers" 1922 Committee in 1953, and later served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to several ministers.
Bullus was a passionate eurosceptic. He strongly opposed Britain"s entry into the European Communities and voted against party orders in favour of a referendum on the issue.
However, his loyalty to the government led him to support the European Communities Acting 1972 despite this. Bullus was knighted in December 1964 as part of Alec Douglas-Home"s dissolution honours list, for "political and public services".
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He was Member of Parliament (Member of Parliament) for Wembley North from 1950 until the constituency was abolished by boundary changes for the February 1974 general election. Member of Parliament.