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Friday, November 10, 2006
Simon Hoggart was once known as "Helene Middleweek"
They made a wonderful row. Lord McNally, leader of the Lib Dems, then the lord speaker with whom, under the name of Helene Middleweek, I was at university, which makes me feel very old.
Helene Middleweek was President of the Cambridge Union (possibly the first woman to be so). Simon Hoggart was not. I wonder what happened to her.
ReplyDeleteShe was elected as an MP in 1974 under her married name Helen Hayman and is now a life peer
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