Following last week’s quiz, I thought I would pose two more questions based on the Guide to Business.
Page 8 of the Guide shows a cross-bencher addressing the House, a Conservative front-bencher speaking from the dispatch box, and a Liberal Democrat speaking from the Liberal Democrat front bench.
Question 1: Who are the three peers?
Question 2: What is the irony involved in showing the Liberal Democrat peer standing a few feet away from the Lord Speaker?
The usual accolade to the first reader to answer both questions correctly.
1) Lord Hannay of Chiswick
2) Lady Rawlings
3) Lord Redesdale – Assuming that’s correct he stood as speaker but received few votes coming 8/9
Croft: You answer to Question 2 is correct (and hence your identification of Lord Redesdale) but your answer to Question 1 has incorrectly identified one of the speakers.
I suppose it was the peeress I misidentified. I really struggled to find pictures to compare with. Perhaps Lady Anelay of St Johns?
Btw – I saw a rather hostile article in yesterdays(?) times about the new Lord’s accommodation. Few itemised & costed details about the fixtures and fittings but please tell me the powers that be have had more sense than with Portcullis House and the insanity of renting fig trees for £150,000.
Baroness Anelay , Lord Redesdale, who stood as speaker, Lord Hannay of Chiswick
Dear Lord Norton,
The female peer is Baroness Anelay of St Johns.
Croft – it is easy to see why you thought it was Lady Rawlings: both baronesses have Big Hair!
Howridiculous.
howridiculous: I thought of replying earlier with a “where’s howridiculous when you need a hair specialist!” It might seem impossible but some peers – especially in old photos – look more like other peers than themselves!
The correct answers are indeed Lord Hannay of Chiswick (former UK Ambassador to the UN), Baroness Anelay of St Johns (the Opposition Chief Whip) and Lord Redesdale, who was indeed a candidate for the Lord Speakership.
Congratulations to Croft, who just managed to get in and identify Baroness Anelay ahead of Tory Boy identifying all three correctly. As I did not introduce a rule that you must stick with your first answer, Croft receives this week’s accolade.
On impressive hair, the pictures may have exhausted most of the obvious candidates – with the notable exception of Lord Desai.