“I didn't really hit him. If I had, he'd have stayed down.”

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

On being accused of hitting Jeremy Corbyn MP in 1985 <br class="br"> Independent, 6 June 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/story.jsp?story=527488

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