Labour candidate apologises for ‘threesome with Ed Miliband and a goat’ gaff

It's an easy mistake to make. You're deep into a fiercely competitive election campaign, and the New Statesman ask you for an interview. You keep telling yourself: 'Don't mention sex with goats...'

Sadly for Labour's Clive Lewis, who is standing in Norwich South, the temptation proved too strong and he bleated it all out in the weirdest, most unsolicited way. It all came about when Lewis was asked about the threat posed to his constituency hopes by the Green Party. He replied thus: "I mean, in the multiverse there's still three universes in a hundred where there's a Green MP in Norwich, so anything could happen. "I could be caught with my pants down behind a goat with Ed Miliband at the other end - well, hopefully that won't happen." We're not exactly sure what the hapless candidate was thinking, but he was quick to express his regret at the accidental suggestion of beastly goings on. "On occasion we all have the ability to get carried away with language and colourful metaphors. "If anyone was genuinely offended then I'm sincerely sorry for that," Lewis told the BBC. Apparently he was only kidding around.