Everyone knows about the Father of the House but you may not have heard that the self-styled ‘Grandfather of the House’ is Sir Bill Cash – now the oldest Member of the Commons. Cash – who will be 80 on May 10th – proudly drives to the Commons in a 1992 Jaguar Sovereign older than many younger MPs. We also hear the godfather of Brexit is now working on his his memoirs, set to be titled My Thirty Years’ War, based on three decades of detailed diaries.
Meet the Grandfather of the House
Everyone knows about the Father of the House but you may not have heard that the self-styled ‘Grandfather of the House’ is Sir Bill Cash – now the oldest Member of the Commons. Cash – who will be 80 on May 10th – proudly drives to the Commons in a 1992 Jaguar Sovereign older than many younger MPs. We also hear the godfather of Brexit is now working on his his memoirs, set to be titled My Thirty Years’ War, based on three decades of detailed diaries.
