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Last updated : 28 May 2006 By Ed

From the Guardian

News reaches us, rather belatedly but hey, of a potentially embarrassing recent foray to the wilds of Greater Manchester by young David Fotherington-Cameron, leader of the Conservative party. Some years ago, you may recall, Michael Howard, on a similar boost-the-urban-vote mission, did wonders for the party cause by remarking that he was wearing a blue tie "in honour of Manchester's real soccer team", thus mightily exercising a great many Man U supporters who, according to the latest survey, make up a mere 62% of the city's population. Naturally, David F-C went to considerable lengths to avoid making exactly the same mistake, explaining gamely that "asking a United question is not like asking a Manchester question, because many United supporters live in, you know, Singapore". Lord knows what he'll say in Liverpool.