20 MAY 1955, Page 7

`THE TORIES courted me,' Lady Megan Lloyd-George coyly told some

voters. `But I was never in danger of falling for them. You all knew for a long time where my heart was—and now you know to whom I have given my hand.' It does not seem to me entirely fitting that Lady Megan should describe her political infidelity in the language of the Troubadours, particu- larly as she ended up by having to marry Labour in a hurry.

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