By Matt Chorley and Tamara Cohen PUBLISHED: 14:09 EST, 28 October 2012 | UPDATED: 10:31 EST, 29 October 2012 A Labour MP today defied his wife, daughters and party bosses and refused to apologise after telling former Tory politician Louise Mensch to ‘shut up’. Austin Mitchell sparked a furious storm on Twitter after criticising author Mrs Mensch for contradicting her husband over why she quit the Commons last month. The Grismby MP tweeted: ‘Shut up Menschkin. A good wife doesn't disagree with her master in public and a good little girl doesn't lie about why she quit politics.’ Defiant Labour MP Austin Mitchell today refused to withdraw his tweets that Louise Mensch should should 'shut up' and remember 'A good wife doesn't disagree with her master in public'
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Austin Mitchell tells former Tory MP she must remember 'a good wife doesn't disagree with her master in public'
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Mrs Mesnch had disputed her husband's explanation for why she quit as Corby MP this summer
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She said the decision was based solely on 'inability to hold family life together' but Peter Mensch said she would have lost the seat to Labour
But he was soon back to insist he would not withdraw the offending tweet, despite being told to do so by his wife, children and @placeholder press advisers