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28 January 2016

Watch: Newsnight presenter Evan Davis calls shadow foreign secretary “Hilary Big Ben“

BONG goes the gaffe bell.

By Media Mole

(Photo By Photos: Getty)

BBC Newsnight presenter Evan Davis accidentally gave the shadow foreign secretary a porn name last night:

“A little earlier I spoke to Hilary Big Ben,” he said, later apologising for the slip over Twitter:

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