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Jeremy Corbyn is caught playing a version of the game 'Doom' which lets you kill Margaret Thatcher (2022)
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A group of children convince David Cameron to eat ‘edible grass’ during his trip to the Falkland Islands, which they all refuse to eat when he offers to share (2024)
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The official Conservative Party YouTube account uploads 'lo fi boriswave beats to relax/get brexit done to' (2019)
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Boris Johnson, who made the law requiring ID to vote in elections, gets turned away from his polling station for not bringing ID (2024)
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A New Zealand TV station misunderstands Boris Johnson’s job (2021)
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Rishi Sunak tells two school pupils that he is a 'total coke addict' before quickly clarifying he meant the drink (2021)
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Rishi Sunak launches his campaign website, the domain of which was registered in December 2021
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Suella Braverman gets tricked into accepting the “Dіck of the Year Award 2023” (2023)
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A 17 year old boy’s trousers fall down while he is meeting the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg (2015)
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Rory Stewart goes to Pizza Express in his coronation garb (2023)
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Guy Fawkes is caught trying to blow up parliament after placing 36 barrels of gunpowder underneath the House of Lords (1605)
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Rishi Sunak lists the 'history of coca cola' as one of his interests on his Stanford alumnus page
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Matt Hancock is suspended as a Tory MP for joining the cast of I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here (2022)
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Ed Balls tweets his own name (2011)
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Daniel Kawczynski (parliament's tallest MP) releases a photo of himself with Rishi Sunak (2023)
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Conservative MP Tom Hunt fails to get valid ID for election day and is left unable to cast his own vote by the same voter ID laws he had voted for three years ago, then asks one of his local party members to vote for him (2024)
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Jim Shannon MP declares grey squirrels ‘the Hamas of the squirrel world’ before Parliament (2023)
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David Cameron takes a selfie with Sergio Aguero and Xi Jinping (2015)
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The Conservative Party change their Twitter account into a false factchecking service during the General Election debates (2019)
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Rory Stewart takes selfies with members of the public whilst campaigning in Hartlepool (2019)
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The Deputy Chief Whip Craig Whittakar resigns and says 'I don't give a f*ck anymore' (2022)
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A virtual Handforth Parish Council meeting spirals into chaos (2021)
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Boris Johnson leaves his car and jogs a few metres into his hotel (2021)
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Labour MP David Marshall brandishes a machete in the House of Commons chamber (1993)
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Matt Hancock plays football (2018)
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Orkney's Council looks at proposals to become a Norwegian territory (2023)
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Tim Farron makes his election victory speech in front of defeated candidate Mr Fishfinger (2017)
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Jacob Rees Mogg's resignation letter is dated as 'St Crispin's Day' rather than the 25th October (2022)
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Boris Johnson refuses to rule out running for the US Presidency (2023)
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Ed Davey photoshops an England shirt onto a photo of him cheering on England's women team (2023)
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Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt accidently refers to his Chinese wife as being Japanese on a trip to Beijing (2018)
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A photo of Ed Miliband blowing his nose is used by American TV for a report about flu vaccinations (2016)
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Karl Marx of the Labour Party is elected to Stockport Council (2024)
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Joanna Cherry holds up a picture of an anime girl pointing a gun (2019)
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David Cameron claims the last ten minutes of Shrek 2 is one of his favourite films (2014)
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Jacob Rees Mogg conducts an interview in front of a clock which has Mogg written on it (2022)
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Tory MP David Davis unveils his Conservative Party leadership campaign t-shirts (2005)
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Britain's political parties start regular meme posting on Twitter (2023)
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Jeremy Corbyn's twitter account is hacked (2016)
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Liz Truss becomes the shortest lived Prime Minister in British history after announcing her resignation 44 days into office
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John Major's government introduces a Public Order Act which includes a ban on raves that plays music defined by 'sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats.' (1994)
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Stephen Woolfe is knocked out by fellow UKIP MEP Mike Hookem at the European Parliament in Strasbourg (2016)
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Liz Truss fails to vote on a fracking bill which her own government had presented as a vote of confidence
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Tory MPs reportedly tell Jacob Rees Mogg to 'f*ck off' after he reminds MPs that a vote on franking is not a confidence vote in the government (2022)
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A Labour candidate for Parliament ties his banner to headstones for a photo op in a graveyard (2023)
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Suella Braverman steps on a guide dog (2023)
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Liz Truss sits on another MP (2018)
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Matt Hancock MP launches his own app (2018)
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Enoch Powell, Minister for Health bouces up and down on his pogo stick in Belgravia whilst his wife and children gaze on (1961)
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Tony Blair decides this is the perfect portrait for his Christmas cards (2014)
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A by election declaration in Ipswich takes an unexpected turn (2001)
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The Treasury creates a Discord server (2022)
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Laurence Fox is disqualified from standing to be London Mayor because he didn’t fill out the nomination forms properly (2024)
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Adult actor Shyla Jennings unknowingly has the Lib Dem logo tattooed onto her when trying to get an eagle tattoo (circa 2003)
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The MP Greg Knight releases an unorthodox campaign video (2017)
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The Liberal Democrats make a campaign video featuring the song "I really like you" by Carly Rae Jepson, with Nick Clegg pretending to be Tom Hanks. The video is allegedly so bad that it has been kept under lock and key to this day (2015)
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Winston Churchill goes down a water slide (1934)
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Boris Johnson hides in a fridge to avoid being questioned by a Good Morning Britain reporter (2019)
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Labour's Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves has her economic plans praised by a US Republican Senator (2023)
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The Beano sends Jacob Rees Mogg a cease and desist letter for looking like their cartoon character Walter the Softy (2018)
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Jacob Rees Mogg wears his conference pass in an unconventional way because of his opposition to lanyards (2022)
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An edit on Chuka Umunna’s Wikipedia page calling him “the UK’s Barack Obama” is revealed to have come from Chuka Umunna’s office (2008)
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A UKIP member canvasses on the graves of the Kray twins (2016)
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Former SNP leader Alex Salmond plays the role of a ghost in a Pakistani soap opera (2001)
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Jeremy Corbyn collects and eats a pringle from a crowd of supporters (2017)
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Education Secretary Michelle Donelan goes to No 10 to pressure the PM to resign the day after she was appointed to cabinet (2022)
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Suella Braverman travels from Dover (Kent) to Manston immigration centre (Kent) on a Chinook helicopter (2022)
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Ed Balls kicks Susanna Reid in the head on live TV (2024)
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Ken Clarke drinks from a glass of scotch in the middle of delivering the government budget speech in the House of Commons chamber (1995)
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Tory MP Robert Halfon is spotted smoking a cigar the same evening he voted in Parliament to ban smoking (2024)
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Gordon Brown appears on American Idol via video link (2008)
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One of the many times Gordon Brown has spent time with his friend Shakira (2015)
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Ipswich Borough Council announces its by-election result with a laser show (2001)
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The “Literal Democrat” candidate for the EU Parliament election in Devon wins enough votes to deny the Liberal Democrats the win (1994)
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A GuidoFawkes petition to make Margaret Thatcher the new face of the £50 note receives fewer signatures than a petition to make Harry Maguire Riding An Inflatable Unicorn the new face of the £50 note (2018)
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The Conservative Party successfully sells a crystal encrusted portrait of the Prime Minister at a fundraising auction (2023)
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Leader of the Liberal Democrats Jo Swinson publishes a pamphlet claiming that she will be 'Britain's next Prime Minister' (2019)
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Tory MPs call for Gordon Brown to resign as Chancellor after he scheduled his budget during the same days as the Cheltenham horse-racing Festival (2004)
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Tory MP William Wragg leaks other MPs’ phone numbers over Grindr messages (2023)
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Former Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson was forced to deny that she used a slingshot loaded with pebbles to kill squirrels after a manufactured story went viral on social media (2019)
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Humza Yousaf goes leg trolley racing in the Scottish Parliament (2021)
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A Tory candidate tries to defeat Jack Straw in the general election by driving “through town telling everybody Jack Straw’s a Jew” (1997)
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Jeremy Corbyn is set to be in the cast of Adam Deacon's film 'Sumotherhood' where he will deliver the line 'Allow it, wasteman' (2023)
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The Prime Minister of Sweden tags the wrong Liz Truss in a congratulatory tweet
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It is revealed that the Prime Minister Gordon Brown eats 63 bananas a week (2010)
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Rory Stewart asks Londoners to allow him to stay in their homes during his bid to become London mayor (2020)
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Andy Burnham presents the Pope with Lisandro Martinez's signed shirt
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The BNP release this Christmas card (2013)
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The February 1974 General Election - the last time a Prime Minister who came to office through a general election also lost office through a general election
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Jim Shannon MP tables a parliamentary motion commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You' (2023)
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As part of the ‘Network North’ project aimed at improving transport links in the north of England, the government announced £235million for roads in London. (2023)
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The Labour Party release their Annual Conference brochure design (2023)
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Education Secretary Gilian Keegan complains about not being thanked for doing a 'f***ing good job' amidst the schools infrastructure crisis (2023)
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Labour Councillor Pat Karney wears a chicken mask to a Manchester City Council meeting to demand Rishi Sunak to call an election (2024)
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Matt Hancock is spotted by a TikToker at a Turkish fake brand shop (2023)
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Before her resignation speech, Liz Truss says 'don't worry, I'm relieved it's over...at least I've been Prime Minister' (2022)
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Matt Hancock MP is seen in a TikTok video wearing a Newcastle United shirt which he had previously auctioned for charity (2023)
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Southampton born Rishi Sunak claims he is the Conservatives' 'most northern Chancellor in seventy years'
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Jo Swinson posing with Easter Eggs (circa 2010)
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