These days, it’s not unusual to hear toe-curling accusations of political perfidies spewing forth from MPs on all sides of a hyper-partisan House. Parliamentary privilege gives MPs the freedom to hurl allegations without fear of legal reprisal, but sometimes, the rhetoric spills out of the Chamber and into the real world outside Commons door.

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