I was in a meeting in the Lords last week when someone referred to Westminster as 'the mother of Parliaments'. It is not uncommon to hear such a reference. However, the 19th Century politician John Bright, who coined the phrase 'the mother of Parliaments', was not referring to Westminster. What he said, in a speech in Birmingham, was 'England is the mother of Parliaments'. This does, of […]
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