SCOTTISH Tory chief whip Stephen Kerr apologised to delegates after his teeth fell out while he was live on stage at the party’s conference.
On the first day of the event at the P&J Live in Aberdeen, Kerr was speaking about his party’s aims to improve education in Scotland when the embarrassing malfunction took place.
Kerr told the conference hall he was “having some problems” with his teeth, before part of his top row appeared to fall out of place.
According to onlookers, Kerr “bravely popped them back in” and continued to address party members.
Afterwards, the MSP for the Central Scotland region showed he had a sense of humour about the incident. “I can’t believe my crown fell out,” he wrote on Twitter. “One thing definitely not to try on stage at a Conservative Party conference.”
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