Like the Bishopric of London, the Archbishopric of Canterbury is a seat both in Parliament and on the Privy Council. To hold it is to be in politics, and part of politics is heckling.
Now, Dame Sarah Mullally, do as you promised and table in the House of Lords the fatal amendment, so to speak, to deny Third Reading to the Assisted Suicide Bill. Or what a Cantuar.
Have you ever been tapped for a peerage?
ReplyDeleteI spat out my tea reading that. I found out much later on both occasions that I had been very, very, very low down the list of possibilities, first in the heyday of the original Blue Labour, and again in the heady early days of Corbynism. But hundreds of people could say the same.
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