Politician and Manchester MP Gerald Kaufman and Liverpool City Council chief executive David Henshaw received knighthoods.

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The gag borrows from Gerald Kaufman's description of Michael Foot's Labour manifesto in 1983.

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Labour MP and ex-minister Gerald Kaufman once described the tales of double-dealing Whitehall mandarins and hapless politicians as "chillingly accurate".

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