Insurance Age blog: Calm down dear?

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David Cameron shocked the Commons at Prime Minister's Question Time this week when he shouted "Calm down dear" to shadow Treasury chief secretary, Labour MP Angela Eagle.

His actions not only caused outrage in the House but also prompted Michael Winner to trend on Twitter - not something I expected to see in my lifetime. It seems that people assume he was echoing the dulcet tones of Mr Winner in the infamous Esure advert.

Cameron has since faced a media backlash branding him a bit of a sexist pig. In his characteristically self-effacing way Mr Winner was the first to challenge this criticism: "It's just a harmless phrase I wrote for an advert 10 years ago, and it

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