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The winter of Ed’s discontent

Never one to miss a dig, hats off to the PM at the final PMQs of this parliament for managing to shoehorn a gag about Ed Miliband into a spurious point about the Battle of Bosworth.

Responding to a question regarding Richard III from self-noted historian Chris Skidmore, Cameron couldn’t help himself:

‘Of course, this is the last time someone did in one of their relatives to take the top job and the country ended up in chaos.’

The old ones are the best…

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