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What I learned today…

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

William Huskisson MP, the first person to be killed by a steam locomotive (the Rocket no less), was friends with Thomas Hare, the inventor of the single transferable voting system, who only narrowly escaped death seconds before.

And they told me the Electoral Reform Society reception would be a dull affair…

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