WOMEN PARLIAMENTARIANS.
THEIR SEATS IN THE HOUSE. (Feoii Ouh Own Cob.respondent.) LONDON, December 14. Lady Iveagh has, according to the Evening Standard, chosen a very remote place in the House of Commons. She sits on the Government side below the gangway at the far end of. the back bench —as much out of the range of the Speaker’s eye as it is possible to be while remaining •in the House. Her colleagues are looking forward with interest to her maiden speech. Naturally they wish to compare her oratorical style with that of the other women members. , Lady Astor has a favourite corner seat on the second bench below the gangway on the Government side, and Mrs Philipson sits on the front bench—below the gangway, of course—on the Opposition side among other Conservatives who cannot find room behind their own leaders, and consequently face them. From the strategical point of view both Lady Astor and Mrs Rhilipson are in key positions in respect of the Speaker’s eye.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20312, 21 January 1928, Page 13
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