I did a milk round at weekends and one of the deliveries was to a local restaurant.

'Let's hope she won't have to do a milk round.'

“My father ran a small business – he did a milk round, doorstep deliveries,” says the 45-year-old MP.

"When I was 14 I left school and I had no intention of ever doing a milk round.

I shouldn't be doing this, I should be doing a milk round in Bolton'."

If even the Hogfather could climb down every chimney in the world in one night, doing a milk round for most of a city in one second was hardly a major achievement.