Uni vote chaos and Brown jibe come back to haunt Penny

PENNY Mordaunt's leadership election bid comes as two embarrassing poll-related gaffes are revealed.

- JOHN SIDDLE

In the first, Ms Mordaunt was blamed for an election dubbed a "fiasco of epic proportions"...when she was a 22-year-old student politician.

She graduated in philosophy from Reading University, Berks, and won the race to become its Students' Union president back in 1995.

But within months she was accused of bungling polls to fill other union committee roles.

The November 1995 elections saw chaotic scenes, according to reports uncovered by the Sunday Mirror from the student paper Spark.

One candidate who dropped out told the paper: "Absolutely nothing was organised.