Spanish People’s party leader fails in bid to become prime minister – as it happened

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As expected, socialist MP Oscar Puente did not mince his words - or as the Spanish idiom has it, there are no hairs on his tongue.

Mr Feijoo, you entered this chamber as leader of the opposition, and as the newspapers have it, you'll leave it having become the leader of the opposition. But you're not just that. You're the leader of the opposition and a scourge! A scourge of who? Sanchez - who else could it be - the font of all evil!"