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13 August 2015

SPOILERS! Tory MP spoils the new Star Wars film

David Gauke went to visit Pinewood studios, and saw. . . something.

By Media Mole

(Photo By The farce awakens? David Gauke spoils the new Star Wars film.)

Uh-oh. Tory MP David Gauke clearly isn’t au fait with the conventions of the internet, which dictate that you at least warn people before you drop a spoiler.

On a ministerial visit to Pinewood studios, to see the benefits of film tax credits, Gauke blithely tweeted about the set of the new Stars Wars film.

It’s a particularly juicy tit-bit because the Death Star was, this mole is reminded, destroyed in a previous episode (A New Hope, Ep IV):

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