REGULAR readers will remember that Dr Richard Taylor feels a little homeless in the main chamber of the House of Commons.

Designed to suit the days when MPs carried swords, there are Government benches and - directly opposite - benches for those in Opposition.

There is nowhere for an independent MP, a relatively new political phenomenon, so Richard has to reluctantly sit among the Lib-Dems.

(Earlier this year, I told how he had cast an envious eye to the Speaker's Chair, saying in one debate: "Unlike you Mr Speaker, I cannot sit in the middle of the Chamber and address it as one who can agree with the Government when he thinks they are right and with the Opposition when he thinks they are right.")

However, he has now found a place he can truly feel at home, the second chamber of the Commons in Westminster Hall.

Like the Welsh and Scottish Assemblies, it is designed in a less confrontational circular shape.

"I greatly enjoy debates in this Chamber, because there is a seat for me, bang in the middle between the two warring factions," he told MPs, when opening a health debate.