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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicholas Watt

Tory officials order teenager to remove Guardian's Step Outside Posh Boy top

Nick Watt's blog Posh boy T-shirt
David Cameron wishes he could wear Guardian's Step Outside Posh Boy T-shirt. Photograph: guardian

David Cameron appears to have more of a sense of humour than some of the Tory officials shepherding him round the country.

News reaches me from Brighton, where Cameron appeared this lunchtime, that a smile crossed his face when he spotted a dreadlocked teenager wearing the Guardian's 'Step Outside Posh Boy' T-shirt. This was our April Fool's joke by our famous correspondent, Olaf Priol, about how Gordon Brown is spoiling for a fight with the Tories.

Cameron today shouted to the teenager words to the effect of:

I want one. But they won't let me wear it.

Perhaps Cameron could teach party officials about humour. Brighton sources say that when the teenager turned up at Varndean College for a question and answer session he was told he could not enter unless he took the offending item off or turned it inside out.

The teenager obliged. But then he put the T-shirt back the right way and was spotted by Cameron.

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