Mark Pack

What they said about the Speaker

By | Tue 19th May 2009 - 7:55 am

“An incompetent and unknown man forced into the Chair by a petty majority in the face of an election defeat known to be impending.”

Oh, perhaps I should add that this was Lord Salisbury 1895 about Speaker William Court Gully.

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