Dennis Skinner's 7 Fiercest Takedowns Of Tory Ministers

Skinner was expelled from the Commons back in 2005 for comments about George Osborne and cocaine.

He told MPs: "Is my honourable friend aware that in the 1970s and in a lot of the 1980s we would have thanked our lucky stars in the coalfield to have got a growth of 1.75%?"

"The only thing that was growing then was the lines of coke in front of Boy George and the rest of the Tories."

He was quickly ordered to leave the chamber after refusing to withdraw the remark, saying "No, I'm not withdrawing it ... it's true."

A Conservative party spokesman later responded: "When the Labour Party gets personal you know they are rattled."

Skinner's interventions once went so far that he was accused of sexism for a remark he fired at business minister Anna Soubry.

He began by using the announcement last year that Redcar steelworks would be shut as evidence of "the real face of Toryism".

"This is the day when the northern powerhouse of [George] Osborne and his stratergy died its death," he said.

Responding to Soubry asking what his question was, Skinner called across the chamber: "You even look like Thatcher".

She fired back, quickly: "You know what, that is so out of order. Can I just say to the honourable gentleman, I find it offensive because it's sexist and he should know better."

This week's 'Dodgy Dave' outburst wasn't the first time Skinner has employed the phrase. He used it twice previously, most recently in July 2015.

Tackling David Cameron at Prime Minister's Questions, the Bolsover MP declared: "For a man who's seemingly never away from Europe, why is it that he's never taken the opportunity to put in a claim for state aid to save British miners' jobs?

"He's the man who during the election campaign masqueraded as the workers' champion and he hasn't got the guts to help those miners.

"He took £700m out of the mineworkers' pension scheme and he's not given a penny back.

"No wonder they call him Dodgy Dave... A man who went to Eton..."

Skinner was not expelled on this occasion, as his comment was drowned out by jeers from MPs in the Commons, but Cameron was quick to fire back.

The PM joked: "It's very good to see the Labour Party in full voice cheering on Jurassic Park. I would stick to the movie."

The Labour MP accused Ukip's first MPs in the last parliament of wanting to deport foreigners in a fiery outburst.

After Mark Reckless defected from the Conservatives then won re-election and was was sworn in as Ukip's second MP in 2014, Skinner tore into him in a debate on the NHS.

"We dragged the National Health Service from the depths of degradation," he said.

"I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it and it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor and a Nigerian registrar."

To loud shouts from his fellow Labour MPs, Skinner went on to savage Carswell and Reckless for their "talk about sending them [foreigners] back".

Skinner also implored David Cameron to "get rid" of the company that decides whether people are fit for work, after a constituent of his died of cancer while waiting on an 11 month-long appeal.

"Isn't it time we put an end to this system where people who are really suffering should not be allowed an appeal, having to live in £70 a week, him and his widow?," he lamented.

"Two things the prime minister should do. One, with immediate effect make an ex gratia payment to his widow to cover the suffering and the pain.

"And second, abolish this cruel heartless monster called Atos, get rid of it."