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Clegg ridiculed in PMQs over joke 'Elvis party' defeat
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg faced ridicule in the Commons following his party's election humiliation

Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg faced ridicule in the Commons yesterday following his party's election humiliation at the hands of the Bus Pass Elvis Party.

The joke Elvis party came fourth with 67 votes in a Nottingham City Council by-election last week, ahead of the Lib Dem candidate, who was bottom of the poll with just 56 votes.

Laughter broke out in the Commons when Labour MP Kevin Brennan suggested that the electorate's message to the Tory-friendly Lib Dems could be described by paraphrasing a famous Elvis Presley song as "you ain't nothing but a lap dog."

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