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The coalition parties might not always see eye to eye but at least their leaders like the same Chanucah joke.
At the Downing Street Chanucah do last week, Prime Minister David Cameron said that when he told his cabinet colleagues about one day’s oil lasting eight nights and their ears pricked up, he had to remind them it was a miracle, not an energy policy.

Pretty much the same crack made by Deputy PM Nick Clegg at this week’s party for the All-Parliamentary Group on British Jews on Monday.

Below is Mr Clegg at the APPG with, for Chanucah, a rather unseasonal bush

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