Cockapoo named Corbyn tops Westminster dog vote

Mike Amesbury Symbol caption Cockapoo Corbyn won the people’s vote within the Westminster Canine of the Year Display

It used to be bring-your-dog-to-work day for MPs, including a cockapoo referred to as Corbyn.

And the seven-month-antique, who belongs to shadow employment minister Mike Amesbury, gained the people’s vote prize within the Dog of the Yr Display.

“in the course of the election marketing campaign my wife promised my son if I won the seat we’d buy a pet,” explained the Weaver Vale MP.

“I Don’t suppose she concept we had been going to win.”

Quiz: Can You fit the dog to the political party?

But he did – ousting the Conservative incumbent – “and so we had to reside as much as the promise”.

Symbol caption General winners Boomer and Corona, with Labour MP Alex Norris Symbol caption Conservative MP Andrew Mitchell came second, with a Welsh Springer Spaniel referred to as Scarlet Whosabootiful Mitchell Symbol caption Former Conservative minister Cheryl Gillan with rescue canine Gooseberry, got here 3rd Image caption Labour MP Anna Turley introduced Shih Tsu Clem to Westminster Image caption Conservative MP Laurence Robertson with Tiger, a smooth-haired dachshund

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