The new MP for Chesham & Amersham follows Jeremy Thorpe, Simon Hughes and Alan Beith in being a Welsh-speaking Liberal or Liberal Democrat representing an English constituency. However, none of the others took the parliamentary oath in Welsh.
Incidentally, Simon Hughes, the former MP for Bermondsey and Southwark, has recently been spotted on a Welsh refresher course.
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Jeremy Thorpe?
Yes, I distinctly remember Thorpe showing off his Welsh in conversation with local guests on the panel of a BBC radio Any Questions? when it came to Wales many years ago. How he came by it I do not know.
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