Life After Parliament
In June 2011 Ainsworth was appointed chairman of the Big Lottery Fund. He is also chairman of the Elgar Foundation and the wild plant charity Plantlife.
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Famous quotes containing the words life after, life and/or parliament:
“I think it beats the heck out of life after death, that’s for sure.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“When Learning’s Triumph o’er her barb’rous Foes
First rear’d the Stage, immortal Shakespear rose;
Each Change of many-colour’d Life he drew,
Exhausted Worlds, and then imagin’d new:”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The war shook down the Tsardom, an unspeakable abomination, and made an end of the new German Empire and the old Apostolic Austrian one. It ... gave votes and seats in Parliament to women.... But if society can be reformed only by the accidental results of horrible catastrophes ... what hope is there for mankind in them? The war was a horror and everybody is the worse for it.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)