David Shutt steps down

The Liberal Democrat chief whip steps down

David Shutt addressing a Liberal Democrat conference in 2008 | Photo: Photo: Keith Edkins via Wikimedia Commons

Baron Shutt of Greetland, the only Quaker in the government, has stepped down as Liberal Democrat chief whip in the upper chamber of Parliament on reaching the age of seventy.

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