Allen Adams
Allender Steele Adams, known as Allen Adams,, was a British Labour politician.
Adams was born in Glasgow, and married Irene Adams on 24 February 1968. He was elected as Strathclyde Regional Councillor for Paisley Craigielea in 1974, a position he held until standing down due to his election as Member of Parliament for Paisley in 1979. He stood successfully for reelection to Paisley North in 1983 following boundary changes. He had served as Labour's Scottish whip whilst an MP. 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as having "behaved towards Scotland with all the sensitivity of a sex-starved boa constrictor", a remark immediately withdrawn, as is the custom in the Commons.
Adams died on 5 September 1990 at the age of 44 from a brain haemorrhage. In the by-election that followed his death, his widow Irene Adams was elected MP for Paisley North.
