A portrait of The Rt Hon George Thomas, MP, Speaker of the House of Commons

'The first day I climbed into that chair, I was the loneliest man in Britain.'
'I think the ordinary person in this country sometimes underestimates the enormous prestige of this, the Mother of Free Parliaments.'
'God's been good to us Jim, but he's been better to me than to you. I'd rather be Speaker than Prime Minister.'

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