Shadow chancellor John McDonnell provoked scorn in 2015 when he fished out his copy of Chairman Mao's Little Red Book in the House of Commons and proceeded to quote one of its pithy aphorisms in response to then chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement. But can you tell their words of wisdom apart?
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