Young David Laws – no, not a new telly detective, but a picture of Lib Dem schools minister David Laws aged about 19. Hint: he’s the chap on the left… a phrase not normally associated with David.
(Hat-tip to Jezz Palmer for spotting.)
Anyone got other photos of Lib Dem MPs before they were famous?
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Oh come on Stephen. Where is old Stephen? In the old days you would have had this up as a caption competition before you could say “Ooh missus!”
a wise old bird was Hailsham.
“I have in my hand a piece of paper”.
I guess this is the Cambridge Union. Who’s the ‘chap’ in the middle?
Ah, the classic “Question To Which The Answer Is No”.
A friends sent me a link to this pic of Ming earlier: https://twitter.com/sturdyalex/status/424493635548086272
“He’s the chap on the left … a phrase not normally associated with David”.
I like that. We could do with a smile at the moment.
Glad to see he had a jolly time at Cambridge. Wonder if my kids will have paid off their HE loans before he retires on a nice government pension. Sorry Lib Dem Voice, can’t laugh at images that remind us that the Old School Tie is alive and well in the Lib Dem Party.
No Richard, It wasn’t Cambridge but St George’s College Weybridge winning The Observer Schools Mace (now The English-Speaking Union Schools Mace). Any secondary school in the UK and Ireland can enter.
Can I suggest for the future something like “If you don’t want to see a photo of a Young David Laws, look away now” (with an opportunity to do so)?
“Hint: he’s the chap on the left… a phrase not normally associated with David. ”
Of course from David’s viewpoint he is the man on the right – indeed well to the right of Lord Hailsham.
We have a name for the guy in the middle.
‘The winners Damian Knollys and David Laws proposed the motion: “This House would reduce the powers of central government in Britain.”‘
http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/18th-may-1984/3/home-news-in-brief
David laws is probably happier with this revelation than the one in TheGuardian a couple of days ago —
David Laws, the Lib Dem minister who stood down from a ministerial position over questionable expenses claims before being given a second government job, has been invited twice to Chequers since August 2011.
He appears to be the only guest to have been invited more than once since it was revealed two years ago that the former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks visited the Camerons twice, in June and August 2010.
Other senior Lib Dems invited to the Buckinghamshire country house, according to the list, include Nick Clegg, Danny Alexander, Vince Cable, Ed Davey
No, I have no interest in seeing pictures of a young David Laws.
Did Hailsham coin the term ‘elective dictatorship’ before or after meeting David Laws?
@ Ian Sanderson (RM3), thanks for putting me right but if anything it makes my point even better – he was wearing the old school tie even earlier than I thought.
Anyone got other photos of Lib Dem MPs before they were famous?
Two points : 1. I have sbsolutely no interest in seeing old photos of parliamentarians. This is politics, not I’m a Celeb.
2. If you saw the results of the Pointless round where the question was “name a Lib Dem MP” then you might want to reconsider the use of the word “famous”. For context not a single person in a sample if 100 knew the name Tim Farron.
Please don’t do this again. It smacks of dreadful sycophancy.
@jedi
“a wise old bird was Hailsham”
Not all the time . He was the Tory candidate supporting Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement at the 1938 Oxford by-election. The Liberal Candidate, Ivor Davies, and the Labour candidate withdrew in favour of an anti-appeasement Independent, Sandy Lindsay. Even prominent Tories like Harold MacMillan were against the Munich Agreement and supported Lindsay.