HAVING gone down a storm on social media ‘Kiss A Ginger Day’ has now even been discussed in Parliament – leaving John Bercow speechless.

The House of Commons Speaker was left puzzled after Chris Bryant mentioned it, resorting to asking an MP to Google it for him.

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The strawberry-blond Labour former minister sparked laughter among his fellow politicians today, wishing Mr Bercow "a happy Kiss A Ginger Day" during business questions.

Yet while most MPs chuckled, Mr Bercow, whose wife Sally is blonde, was left looking puzzled, prompting Mr Bryant to add: "I'm sure you can look it up."

Tory whip Steve Brine was on the frontbench to offer a hand and Googled Kiss A Ginger Day before handing his iPad up to the Speaker to take a look.

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Mr Bercow remarked: "This Kiss A Ginger activity is probably perfectly lawful, but I've got no plans to partake in it myself."

He added: "As you can probably tell I had not the slightest idea about what the honourable gentleman was prating (about) so the matter had to be Googled for me."

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The Speaker declared it "rum business" and  insisted he would not be taking part in the celebration of redheads, drawing cries that he should resign from ginger MPs.

Labour's Louise Haigh, who has red hair, jokingly took exception to being one of the last MPs to be chosen to speak during business questions.

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She told Mr Bercow: "I'm very sorry to be picked so late on Kiss A Ginger Day as we only do get one day a year after all.

"I'm wondering whether you might be colour blind actually."

The silliness then continued, as after Sir Desmond Swayne made an intervention to praise the Speaker, Mr Bryant claimed the Tory MP was being "anti-ginger" for praising Mr Bercow over his carrot-topped deputy Eleanor Laing.