Lara Bird, also Lara Bird-Leakey, also Pyla Bird-Leakey, the new SNP MP for Arbroath and Broughty Ferry, has caught growing attention for her disparate accents and dumbing down of her name. Twas ever thus…
Bird-Leakey is an English lawyer and sits on the Executive Committee of the pro-Palestine Balfour Project. Here’s the Wikipedia page for the Leakey family…
She was conducting PhD research at King’s College London on International Humanitarian Law and staffed in Westminster for the SNP prior to her selection in the by-election seat. Presumably she has to pick one accent going forward…
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”