“KBO is the motto for the day, I’m afraid,” Nicholas Soames says, sighing. The long-serving Conservative MP and grandson of Winston Churchill is quoting his grandfather’s favourite acronym. It stands for “keep buggering on”.
Soames, who is 69, has brought the phrase into the 21st century using his Twitter account. The hashtag “#KBO” is just one of his many idiosyncratic pronouncements that have contributed to his social media fame.
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