Edited sentence: By 1987 Wall was facing serious ill-health, but he battled on against criticism to retain his candidature and finally to represent his constituency in the House of Commons.In his last weeks he was to be found writing to support Arthur Scargill and Peter Heathfield in their battle against the attacks of the popular media.No careerist, Pat donated most of his salary back to the movement he said it was a privilege to represent, taking only the wage of an average skilled worker for himself.Pat was not one of those to make the Labour Party `a little grey home... for pinks scared white by the reds', as early witch-hunt victim Konni Zilliacus once put it