Did people treat you differently because you were an MP?

Did people treat you differently because you were an MP?

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People definitely treat you differently most of the time. It's not necessarily their fault, but you can tell. People start whispering when you walk into the room, or they might treat you differently, in a nice way. They give you more time to put your point of view across. They want to hear what you've got to say, or they throw eggs in your face. But usually, when people would find out that I was an MP, their attitude would immediately change towards me. That might be in a theoretically nice way, they were more polite or whatever. It might have been in a worse way, and they would just start screaming in my face. They would definitely change. Their attitude towards me would change.