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HIS GAFFES BORIS Johnson today waltzes into No10 despite a career littered with gaffes, racism, U-turns and deceit.

But last night, his comment was likened to some of his father Prince Philip's infamous gaffes.

To build this argument, I situate extant theorizing on representative anecdotes alongside research on campaign narratives and political gaffes to demonstrate that multiple opposed meanings can be assigned to a representative anecdote in different campaign narratives.

While a Legislative House cannot have an even number of seats, what's more unceremonic, in this incident, is that the Gandhi scion cannot go through an event without making innocent gaffes.

Of course until now, the gaffes have all emerged from the motor-mouth of Trump.

WHEN it comes to political gaffes, there are so many to choose from.

CLARE Balding has been saddled with an unwanted honour after topping a poll of the funniest horse-racing gaffes of all time.

But the issues do seem already to trail distantly behind the coverage given to personalities, to "spin" and to so-called "gaffes".

O.O.P.S.; observing our politicians stumble; the worst candidate gaffes and recoveries in presidential campaigns.