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Mark Francois: Why I won’t buy David Cameron’s book

It perhaps isn’t much of a surprise that Mark Francois won’t be buying David Cameron’s book. But his reason for not splashing out on ‘For the Record’ is somewhat unusual. The Brexiteer revealed that he won’t be putting it on his Christmas list for the simple reason that he doesn’t appear in it. Francois told a Tory conference fringe event:

‘I went to the index, i went down to F, and I looked for my name and it wasn’t there so he can keep his £25 quid.’

Mr S isn’t quite sure how Francois’s refusal to buy the book means that Dave gets to ‘keep’ his money works…

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