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Leader of the House of Commons
Incumbent:
Harriet Harman MP
Took office: 28 June 2007
Style: The Right Honourable
Appointed by: Gordon Brown
as Prime Minister
First : John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
(of Great Britain)
Formation: 1707
United Kingdom

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The term "Lord Privy Seal" (as in "not bad, but it's a bit Lord Privy Seal") is used in the British television industry as shorthand for associating pictures too closely and literally with every element of the accompanying spoken script. The origin is a TV comedy sketch in The Frost Report taking the practice to an extreme, which backed a "news report" mention of the Lord Privy Seal with images, in quick succession, of a lord, an outdoor toilet, and a seal balancing a ball on its nose. The Frost Report was a Satirical Television show hosted by David Frost. An outhouse, usually refers to a type of Toilet in a small structure separate from the main building which does not have a flush or sewer attached The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of Mammals within the seal Suborder, Pinnipedia.

English Lords Privy Seal, 1307–1707

British Lords Privy Seal, 1707–present

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