'Very Senior' Labour MP may have died.

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Named sources according to Iain Dale have said that a 'senior and much respected Labour MP' has died today. More soon (or hopefully not)

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'Very senior' may have been a 'clue'

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BBC confirms Gwyneth Dunwoody has died.

R.I.P

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BBC confirms Gwyneth Dunwoody has died.

R.I.P

I always did think that she should've been Speaker.

The odd thinkis, I was talking to someone about that just half an hour ago.

She was always a 'details' woman, particularly on comittee. Speaker would have suited her.

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Just a little formal note to everyone here. If a certain thread is started tomorrow over on the international elections board, it will be closed or deleted. Politicians are allowed a little dignity as much as the rest of us.

I agree. I have to admit I had a glance at some numbers but I don't see the need to discuss anything until after the May elections.

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BBC confirms Gwyneth Dunwoody has died.

R.I.P

I always did think that she should've been Speaker.

The odd thinkis, I was talking to someone about that just half an hour ago.

She was always a 'details' woman, particularly on comittee. Speaker would have suited her.

And she would have kept the House in order through sheer battleaxeishness. Reminded me a lot of my late Grandma actually.

Well Betty managed it with aplomb She was a great speaker at one of the best times to be one (even casting an important tie breaker) Gwyneth would been just as fiesty - it's still a house of predominently rowdy men who need to be clipped behind the ear sometimes! On that note I have no idea who the next speaker will be. It will more than likely be a Tory but it won't be the one we expected until just a few months ago...

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Apparently it was a stroke. Her father (Morgan Phillips, yes, that one) had a stroke and died a few years later.

I know that her late ex-husband was an MP and her daughter, she was an AM iirc?