According to the PMOS, Tony uses an NHS dentist. The perma-tanned boy-racer, Peter Hain, switched from an NHS dentist in Putney when he went private to an NHS dentist in his Neath constituency – that should keep the leftie dentist vote on side. Hazel Blears lets the taxpayer subsidise her smile, as do Patricia Hewitt, David Miliband and Baroness Amos.

In a statement he spun the blame onto his wife “Gordon has been going to the same dentist for 11 years. Mr Druian is an old friend of Sarah Brown’s family”.

The latest figures show that 60% of Britons are not registered with an NHS dentist. New Labour pledged in 1999 that all patients would have access to NHS dentistry within two years.