Re: The Pages of Punch
1960: Wedgwood Benn Renounces Peerage
Antony Wedgwood Benn (as he was then known) had finally managed to rid himself of an inherited peerage which he hadn’t sought and which prevented him from sitting in the House of Commons. The cartoonist seems to be saying why bother with the Commons when the Lords is the better place to sit.
Nowadays you can actually be a peer and sit in the Commons and no-one thinks that the Lords is the better place.
Tony Benn (as he was later known) ceased being an M.P. in order ‘to spend more time with politics’ and became a national treasure before he died..