One imagined Betty Boothroyd gazing down from paradise at a church not devoid of gasbags... and wondered if she was managing to hold her tongue: QUENTIN LETTS at the memorial service for the late Commons Speaker
Betty Boothroyd's memorial service was held yesterday at St Margaret's, Westminster. No Tony Blair, no John Major, no William Hague, no Gordon Brown. Not a sniff of John Bercow.