About this story
Her terms are London every season and no cheese-paring; Fontenoy's price is the House in February. Maxwell's bill sends you round the works in a plain coat, through a strike at your own pits to the men's vote in the snow. Forty chapters carry you from the division lobby to the pit cage, and the clause that passes without you.
How it opens
Torches receded behind the landau while a victorious crowd continued shouting in Market Malford.
You were Sir George Tressady, elected to Parliament that afternoon by a majority of seventeen votes.
Three weeks of promises leave a man wanting soap for the mind as much as rest for the body.
Lord FontenoySpare yourself this moral bath; our party stated exactly what resistance to the government requires.
Lord FontenoyBurrows is dangerous because ability and a miners' following have met in the same man.
Choose
Ask which campaign promises Fontenoy expects you to treat as binding.
Admit that Burrows fought well and deserves a hearing despite defeat.