Welcome to the rest of his politics question time with me, Rory Stewart.

And me, Aleister Campbell. So, Aleister, to start us off, we've got a lovely question from

Ellie Scott, who asks, share your best memories of Betty Buthroid, and for

listen, you haven't probably Betty Buthroid has died this week. So, Aleister.

So, Betty Yorkshire-born, Dewsbury. She was a till-a-girl, famously dancer, and

became an MP for West Bromwich, and she was the first ever woman speaker of the

House of Commons, first female speaker of the House of Commons, labor to her

core, but I think hugely respected as a speaker, and of course became one of the

most famous speakers, because it coincided with television cameras being

allowed into Parliament. She wasn't the first TV speaker, but she was the first

that was there for quite a long time. And she was a lovely, lovely, lovely woman.

If I had, I think about one, two memories, actually, that pop into my head when

people said that on the day she died. The first was, I remember during the period

when I was really under the Cosh in number 10, when the, I felt like, you know,

the Tories were after me, the media were after me the whole time, quite a few

people on our own side were sort of thinking, oh, isn't it about time we sort of

chopped his head off. And I got a phone call from the speaker's secretary saying,

the speaker wonders if he'd like to pop in for a cup of tea, which happened

periodically. And so I thought, oh, God, not Betty as well, it's going to be sort of

going up on me. And I went there, and we sat down, I'm going to cup a tea, and

we dunked our digestive biscuits. And she could not have been nicer. And she just

said, listen, you get a lot of grief, you get a lot of flak, but I just hope you

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