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Watch: Labour MP’s pub slip-up

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The Labour MP for Chesterfield caused a rush of sniggers in the Commons this afternoon when he told colleagues that: 

People don’t generally go to the pub in order to meet their own wife, they will go to the pub to meet with other people…

Little wonder fellow MPs started laughing given Toby Perkins’s own love life… 

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