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Tory toff claims he ‘knows what it’s like to be poor’

A PUBLIC SCHOOL educated Tory MP rejected claims of his party’s perceived privilege yesterday as “the worst type of class war stereotypical nonsense.”

Conor Burns, who went to the £14,000 per year St Columba’s College in St Albans, was visibly shaking in the Commons when he hit back at accusations from the Labour benches that he doesn’t understand what it’s like to not know where his next meal is coming from.

He said that he had signed on for the dole in 1994 after graduating from university — the same year in which he failed to win a seat on Southampton Council, having derided his opponents as “spastics.”

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