Defence minister Johnny Mercer looks like he has been in the wars after bashing his face while canoeing. The Plymouth Moor View Conservative MP and former Army captain inflicted a cut above his right eye while paddling on the Tamar river.
He said afterwards: “I think it’s important in life to work out what you’re not good at, as well as what you are. “Canoeing would seem to join that rather long and illustrious list for me.
Loved it though.” And he seemed determined to finish the challenge he had set himself, vowing: “Still gonna finish the Tamar top to bottom.
There’s a pint on the Barbican with my name on it.” Mr Mercer was enjoying a trip on his own in the South West beauty spot after he and wife Felicity welcomed their third child
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