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Baroness Miller of Hendon: I well remember my very first interview as a potential candidate [for MP]. The chairman’s opening words to me were: “Before you sit down, Mrs Miller, can you tell us whether your husband is aware that you are here?” Being naive as I was in those days, I did not realise that I was already sunk without a trace before I had begun, and I answered him politely. What I should have replied was, “No, he thinks I’m out at a disco with the milkman”.