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| | icBirmingham - New MPs in mood for jokes, flies and files |
 | | While the more experienced MPs will have been arguing about the best way to run a hospital or whether interest rates are too high, the new boy or girl is supposed to say how wonderful their predecessor was, educate their colleagues about their constituency, and tell a few jokes. |
 | | Robert Flello, the new Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent South offered an account of the election, when Mr Flello and Labour activists subsisted on Eccles cakes, "or, as they are affectionately known, dead-fly pies". |
 | | And there was also an account of the contribution Stoke has made to the world, from Reginald Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire, to Motorhead's Lemmy, Slash from Guns 'n' Roses and Robbie Williams. |
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