"On a walk around the Science Museum in London, Mr Griffith pointed to an exhibit showing the surfaces of different planets, the House magazine reported. “Now we have got Mars,” he said, before being told by a member of museum staff that it was actually the Sun...
Insisting he is learning on the job as space minister, he said: “I’m not an encyclopaedia.”"
Most of us learnt to distinguish bodies in the solar system while we were still at school, you thick muppet! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-space-minister-andrew-griffith-b2478911.html
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