Today Chris Bryant has been the cause of much laughter in the Commons thanks to a joke about George Osborne and Coke. Discussing the Chancellor’s new sugar tax, Bryant said that he was glad Osborne had come round to the dangers of coke:
‘I’m delighted that finally the chancellor has realised the dangers of coke.’
Bryant appeared to be referencing claims — which Osborne denies — surrounding his alleged friendship in the nineties with Natalie Rowe, the former dominatrix. Happily Rowe seemed amused by the joke:
https://twitter.com/RealNatalieRowe/status/710463504717914112
Still, not everyone appears to see the funny side. The Financial Times’ Jim Pickard reports that Bryant tried to get Jeremy Corbyn to use the joke yesterday:
https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/710415540624494592
If so, that may have been for the best. When Dennis Skinner made a similar comment back in 2005, he was kicked out of the Commons.
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