Political heavyweight Sir Nicholas Soames who used to tip the scales at 20 stones presents a VERY streamlined new look
- Sir Winston Churchill's grandson is looking much slimmer in photos today
- Political heavyweight, once Minister for Food, was 20 stone at his heaviest
- Displayed much slimmer frame at event to mark first ever tank battle held in Trafalgar Square
The grandson of Sir Winston Churchill has displayed a dazzling slimmer figure as he joined crowds in Trafalgar Square to mark 100 years since the first tank battle at the Somme.
Sir Nicholas Soames, once the minister for food in John Major's government, cut a streamlined silouhette in London as he spoke about the history of tanks.
Dramatic: Sir Nicholas Soames, grandson of Winston Churchill, showed a dramatic weight loss today, on the right, compared with 2015, left
At his heaviest, Sir Soames is thought to have been about 20 stones, but he looked much healthier and smaller today in a double breasted suit and stripey tie.
The dramatic weight loss has come in just the last year, as pictures above show a much bigger Sir Soames in 2015, at the The Prince's Countryside Fund Raceday at Ascot Racecourse (above left).
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Minister for Food: Sir Soames tucks into a McDonald's breakfast at one of the chain's restaurants in Marble Arch in 1994, left, and flips a pancake during the annual Parliamentary race in the same year
The Conservative MP for Mid Sussex is said to have lost weight through 'restraint and abstinence'.
According to Bruce Anderson, of the Spectator, his tremendous weight loss is simply down to eating less, so says Gavin Rankin, of Bellamy's.
The former defence minister, who was born in Croydon, has come to blows with fellow MPs in recent months.
It was revealed in May that James Cleverly, the newly elected Conservative MP for Braintree, approached Sir Nicholas Soames in a Commons dining room to say he agreed with his appeal for the party to unite after June's EU referendum and to hold off from personal attacks.
But in an astonishing response, Sir Nicholas reportedly told Mr Cleverly: 'F*** off you c***.
Sir Soames, pictured with a tank in Trafalgar Square, appears to have lost a good deal of weight since last Spring
The MP, 68, has not led his age get in the way of modern technology and has proved quite a hit on Twitter with his lengthy hashtags.
Two days ago, he tweeted: 'So much good in the worst of us:so much bad I the best of us ,that it does not become any one of us to find much fault with the rest of us.'
While the BBC Proms were on, he tweeted a message with the hashtag '#ADVANCEBRITANNIAGODSAVETHEQUEEN'.
He also sent 'I think Sir Henry wood wld be so proud of his brilliant creation#welldonethebeebforbuildingoniteveryyear'
The pro-EU Sir Soames greets former UKIP leader Nigel Farage in central London as the two sppeared together at an event to mark 100 years since the first tank was used in a battle
What a difference a few years makes: Sir Soames on the left, pictured in 2013 at the Conservative Party conference, and right, in Trafalgar Square three years on
Sir Soames, who has been an MP for 32 years, was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for political service.
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