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Tory party chairman: 'I drink beer and I love a game of bingo'

The Conservative party chairman has hit back at criticism of an advert he tweeted celebrating the cuts in bingo tax and beer duty that opponents called "condescending". Grant Shapps told the BBC: "Personally, I drink beer and I love a game of bingo".

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Osborne: Labour using Bingo ad to attack budget

George Osborne said Labour was only attacking the Conservatives' Bingo duty advert "because they don't have anything else to say about the economy."

The Chancellor told Daybreak he was "proud" the budget was helping with tax on Bingo so the halls could stay open.

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