I'd brought some families who had used foodbanks to see the debate from the
Strangers Gallery and I watched as one by one they left in tears.
The green leather gaps in the
Strangers gallery, how the Commons formally refers to the public, emptied as the hours wore on and told the real story.
Veterans, sitting in the chamber's
Strangers Gallery, had marched on the House to protest at Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond's plans.
"In the early days, you could just walk in, you know, salute the bobby and say 'I've come for the
Strangers Gallery', I think it's called.
Dear Editor, - I was in the
Strangers Gallery at the Council House on June 6 and heard the ill-considered response by Coun Whitby to the entirely predictable comments made by Coun Yaqoob.
Bob Jones and a handful of students travelled from Coventry to watch the House of Commons debate from the
strangers gallery and saw for themselves which MPs switched sides.
It was a long and lonely trail in politics, between that vision of juvenile and aspiring eloquence, expressed in Liverpool, and the 'G.O.M.' of his last Ministry of 1892-94: when Gilbert Murray listened to him from the
Strangers Gallery of the House of Commons -- 'I saw a small old man with an unimpressive voice start to speak, and, as he spoke he grew bigger and bigger and his voice became stronger and stronger, until after four hours it died away and there was the little old man again'.
Education Secretary Michael Gove's local party got pounds 67,000 from the Magna Carta Club and pounds 39,000 from the
Strangers Gallery. Critics say the system, though legal, makes a mockery of the PM's pledge in 2010 to clean up politics.
Sion Simon (Lab Erdington) spoke out against proposals to build a barrier in the
Strangers Gallery of the House of Commons.
Mr Vaughan was sitting in the
Strangers Gallery, reserved for the public, watching Commons Question Time.