‘Election’ to be scuppered?
NZPA-AP London The “election” of Britain’s most romantic Member of Parliament is in danger of being scuppered — by the politicians’ secretaries.
They have been asked by the publisher, Mills and Boon, to vote for the man at Westminster most likely to make them swoon.
But Harry Greenway, the Conservative M.P. for Ealing North, said darkly, “I understand there is a conspiracy being mounted by the secretaries on such a dastardly scale that it makes the Gunpowder Plot itself look like a Sunday afternoon picnic.
Mrs Freda Ruthven, a Tory M.P.’s secretary, who has decided not to vote, said she would not name those whom her colleagues are backing. "But I can tell you this,” she said. “Not even the most generous among us would describe them as latter-day Valentinos. Not the sort of chaps I would care to be serenaded by on a gondola some starlit Venetian night.”
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Press, 9 December 1988, Page 41
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