This was after he opened with the reason he was pushing ahead with privatising Royal Mail
"Last year the Royal Mail lost 5 million letters"
cue a stunned pause from the house followed by laughter.
"Er Th Th That is That is to say That they lost 5 million in the number of letters they had to handle..."
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Wed 20 May 2009, 20:24,
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