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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Steph Brawn

'It's all the same to him': Boris Johnson panned for basic UK geography gaffe

Boris Johnson received pelters this morning from opposition MPs after getting in a geographic muddle

BORIS Johnson has made yet another embarrassing geographical error after he mixed up Teesside with Tyneside.

After campaigning in Whitley Bay in the North East of England, the Prime Minister tweeted he had been speaking to voters in Teesside when the seaside town is actually in Tyneside some 40 miles further north. 

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