Quiz: How Insulting Are MPs To Each Other In Parliament?

Quiz: Did MPs *Really* Use This Insult In Parliament?

The "Your Mum" exchange between David Cameron and Jeremy Corbyn showed how Parliament can be an unforgiving place. But the political insult has a long and noble history.

While MPs have to abide by rules set down by the Erskine May hand-book, prohibiting "unparliamentary language" such as "stoolpigeon" and "guttersnipe", many have hurled abuse regardless. But which really did happen at the heart of British democracy?

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