North Essex Lord returns to Colchester (From Gazette)

North Essex Lord returns to Colchester

4:14pm Friday 27th January 2012 in Local News

A LEADING Labour Lord returned to his north Essex roots to meet sixth-form students and staff at Colchester’s Citizens Advice Bureau.

Lord Bassam, opposition chief whip in the House of Lords, was quizzed by around 40 A-Level politics students at Colchester Sixth Form College.

The 1st year students grilled him about his support for Labour leader Ed Miliband, what Lords reforms he supports and his past as the government’s chief whip between 2008 and 2010.

Lord Bassam told them about his political awakening opposing plans to build a community centre on Great Bentley’s green and regaled them with impressions of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and tales of being quoted prices for a coat of arms when he was made a life peer in 1997.

See Monday's Gazette for more