Anna Soubry apologises to Ukip leader for 'finger up bottom' remark
Source: The Guardian
The Conservative defence minister, Anna Soubry, has apologised to the Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, after suggesting that his facial expressions made him look like someone who enjoyed a person putting their finger up his bottom.
Soubry made her remarks on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show while sitting alongside the impressionist Rory Bremner, Lord Mandelson, and the business secretary, Vince Cable. Both politicians looked on astonished as presenter Andrew Marr tried to stop her.
After Bremner had impersonated Farage, Soubry – who has clashed with the Ukip leader before – said: "I always think he looks like somebody has put their finger up his bottom and he really rather likes it." Bremner asked: "Are you allowed to say that?", at which point Marr said: "It's too late. She has said it." Lord Mandelson commented: "Anna, please, it's too early."
The comment provoked an immediate reaction on Twitter, not least from Farage himself. "Perhaps [Anna Soubry] should spend less time investigating digital rectal insertion and more on her brief?" he tweeted.
Farage added: "She is rude and incompetent. I would expect an apology – but I won't be holding my breath."
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/dec/22/soubry-nigel-farage-finger-bottom?CMP=twt_fd
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I'm not sure exactly how she phrased it. 
She did subsequently apologise.
