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  2. 27 July 2012

MP attacks 'leftie Ceremony'

Downing Street has distanced itself from comments made by the Conservative MP Aidan Burley on Twitter about the "most leftie Opening Ceremony I have ever seen." The backbencher has partially withdrawn his comments.

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No 10 source: 'We don't agree with Burley's views'

In response to Conservative MP Aidan Burley's tweets that this was "the most leftie opening ceremony I have ever seen", a Downing Street source has told me: "We don't agree with his views."

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