(Mr Singh, a former steward of UNISON, the public-sector trade union, says he feels at home in Margaret Thatcher's old party).Elsewhere in the city, race politics of a different shade have made an appearance.
Where most QT panellists crouch forward like students straining to hear every word from teacher, the former steward of the euro in Athens slouch-lounged so languidly that you kept expecting Dimbleby to warn him about the risk of tipping his chair over backwards.
The decision to open an exit gate just minutes before a fatal crush at Hillsborough was taken by police, a former steward has told the inquests.
Besides the five current legislators who are union employees, five more in New Jersey are current or former shop stewards or local presidents, and perhaps two dozen others are or have been union members.
"Hopefully, development doesn't push the place out," said Joe Larsen, former chief steward at Riverhead.
The source for many accusations was Wilson Kennedy, the order's former provincial steward for the Province of Canada, a position similar to that of chief financial officer.
With me that first day was Mr Suzuki, a handsome, 68-year-old former airline steward who had taken up guiding in retirement.
But Mr. Quinn, a former union steward and die-hard Democrat who is known simply and affectionately as L.Q., has hit a rough patch that has, for the moment, deprived Ms. Quinn of her essential political sidekick.
Nicholas Soames "Mine's a gin and tonic, Giovanni, and would you ask my friend what he's having?" he would regularly ask of John Prescott, a working-class former ship steward.
In the most notorious incident, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott — a fiery Old Labour sort, a former ship steward — was pelted by an egg at close range and responded with a left jab.
