Wednesday 14 September 2022 02:05 AM EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Did Labour MP dodge allegiance to the King? trends now
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Charles Moore, attending Monday’s Westminster Hall ceremony where parliamentarians pledged allegiance to the new King, spotted one Labour MP who crossed his fingers behind his back while taking the oath in an attempt to avoid swearing allegiance to King Charles.
In 2019 SNP MP Steven Bonnar and in 1997 the late Labour MP Tony Banks did the same to avoid pledging allegiance to the Queen.
Accusing the latest offender of thinking his gesture was ‘funny’, Lord Moore rages: ‘By doing so, he was not expressing legitimate (if misguided) republican sentiments: he was cheating.’ Name the anti-Royalist Charles!
Charles Moore, attending Monday’s Westminster Hall ceremony where parliamentarians pledged allegiance to the new King, spotted one Labour MP who crossed his fingers behind his back while taking the oath in an attempt to avoid swearing allegiance to King Charles
Prince Philip might guffaw at the burgeoning campaign to have a statue of the Queen erected in Trafalgar or Parliament Square. He agreed to have a statue of himself, next to the Queen, carved for the west front of Canterbury Cathedral in 2015. At its unveiling he mused that his image bore an uncanny resemblance to Boris Karloff, muttering: ‘I’m sure the pigeons will like it.’
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