One (and as far as I know, only one) current or former Lib Dem/SDP/Liberal MP has presented a 45 minute ITV programme about venereal disease.
Can you guess who it is?
(Answer after the jump.)
Jo Grimond, during his time as party leader.
The show was called The Shadow of Ignorance and aired in April 1960. The Catholic Herald was not impressed: “Venereal disease is the result of promiscuity, and since the programme was dealing with human beings. not animals, the moral issue should have been discussed, but never was … In duty bound I sat the programme out, and when it ended opened the windows wide.”
* Mark Pack is Party President and is the editor of Liberal Democrat Newswire.
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I would have guessed at Michael Winstanley.
Here are all the present ones, courtesy http://www.parliament.uk/
Alexander, Danny Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Baker, Norman Lewes
Beith, Alan Berwick-upon-Tweed
Birtwistle, Gordon Burnley
Brake, Tom Carshalton and Wallington
Brooke, Annette Mid Dorset and North Poole
Browne, Jeremy Taunton Deane
Bruce, Malcolm Gordon
Burstow, Paul Sutton and Cheam
Burt, Lorely Solihull
Cable, Vince Twickenham
Campbell, Menzies North East Fife
Carmichael, Alistair Orkney and Shetland
Clegg, Nick Sheffield, Hallam
Crockart, Mike Edinburgh West
Davey, Edward Kingston and Surbiton
Farron, Tim Westmorland and Lonsdale
Featherstone, Lynne Hornsey and Wood Green
Foster, Don Bath
George, Andrew St Ives
Gilbert, Stephen St Austell and Newquay
Hames, Duncan Chippenham
Hancock, Mike Portsmouth South
Harvey, Nick North Devon
Heath, David Somerton and Frome
Hemming, John Birmingham, Yardley
Horwood, Martin Cheltenham
Hughes, Simon Bermondsey and Old Southwark
Huhne, Chris Eastleigh
Hunter, Mark Cheadle
Huppert, Julian Cambridge
Kennedy, Charles Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Lamb, Norman North Norfolk
Laws, David Yeovil
Leech, John Manchester, Withington
Lloyd, Stephen Eastbourne
Moore, Michael Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Mulholland, Greg Leeds North West
Munt, Tessa Wells
Pugh, John Southport
Reid, Alan Argyll and Bute
Rogerson, Dan North Cornwall
Russell, Bob Colchester
Sanders, Adrian Torbay
Smith, Robert West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Stunell, Andrew Hazel Grove
Swales, Ian Redcar
Swinson, Jo East Dunbartonshire
Teather, Sarah Brent Central
Thurso, John Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Ward, David Bradford East
Webb, Steve Thornbury and Yate
Williams, Mark Ceredigion
Williams, Roger Brecon and Radnorshire
Williams, Stephen Bristol West
Willott, Jenny Cardiff Central
Wright, Simon Norwich South
So who is famous for what?
Loreley Burt was once a prison governor!