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"I didn't fully know what had happened. I felt enormous pain in both my legs; they were bruised and grazed," the 77-year-old former home secretary and health secretary wrote in the Sun on Sunday.

Setting aside any bruised pride, he said there are plenty of reasons to visit the region, beyond its former political prescience.

Already bruised by rows over defence spending cuts the year before, he pleaded with Thatcher to be allowed to step down.

Voters in the world’s western democracies were bruised and angry after a life-changing pandemic, several years of price surges and a migration crisis.

United insiders are bruised at the repeated references to £200m being burned through the decision to stick with Ten Hag post-FA Cup final triumph.