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

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

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Source: On the accusation he hit Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons division lobby in 1985, as cited in "Robert Kilroy-Silk: Here comes trouble",The Independent (6 June 2004).
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