Tag: Privy Counsellors
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David Torrance: Ministerial hand kissing
“There we were, 16 grown men,” complained the Labour minister Richard Crossman on joining the Privy Council in 1964: For over an hour we were taught how to stand up, how to kneel on one knee on a cushion, how to raise the right hand with the bible in it, how to advance three paces towards…