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Wirral MP Frank Field testing support for Speaker of the House of Commons bid
Jun 1 2009 Liverpool Daily Post
Given that the outgoing Speaker is Labour, Mr Field will have to persuade fellow MPs that his independent qualifications on the Labour back benches make him a realistic interim option.
He has emerged as second favourite behind Ms Widdicombe among voters and on-line punters, but the election is among MPs only.
“I will have to see if my colleague’s constituents sway them to support me,” he said.
Mr Field, 66, was a Conservative party member in his youth but left over South African apartheid during the 1960s.
Last year he led the successful rebellion against Chancellor Alistair Darling’s abolition of the 10p tax rate, and he also backed calls for a devolved English Parliament.
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