Tories angry over Guinness advert

LONDON - Guinness in Britain has bowed to complaints from senior Conservatives over an advertising campaign apparently featuring…

LONDON - Guinness in Britain has bowed to complaints from senior Conservatives over an advertising campaign apparently featuring a sado masochistic Tory supporter.

The firm came under attack for showing a masked man in a leather jacket hanging by chains from a ceiling under the gaze of a portrait of John Major. Guinness has apologised and agreed not to run the advertisement, featured in FHM, a magazine for men, again.

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