A Tory MP tipped to be the next prime minister once delivered a speech on poultry welfare to parliament for the sole purpose of saying “c**k” several times on a bet with Royal Navy colleagues.
Penny Mordaunt, the bookmakers’ favourite to win the Tory leadership, used the word six times and “lay” or “laid” five times during the course of a 2013 speech after being presented with a forfeit for a “misdemeanour” during training for the Navy reserves.
