Paul Waugh highlights a passage from Harriet Harman’s speech today:
Now, Paul reports that Harman’s people are saying the “lapdancing” bit is merely a “jokey reference to lapdancing club tickets distributed during last year’s Tory conference in Birmingham”. But it seems to me that this is a particularly contrived and even nasty attempt to sully an opponent’s name. I expect the Tories can expect more of this dubious treatment as Brown’s government fight for their political survival.“Contrasting Labour’s record on equalities and feminism with that of the Tories, she said that David Cameron would extend foxhunting rights to everyone, while George Osborne would replace a SureStart in every community with ‘a lapdancing club in every community’.”
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