Tory MEP in love-boat rescue

One vexed BM reader has sent in this headline from a Tory MEP’s press release today:

“Girl told to return to Spain in tug of love case can stay in UK”

Quite apart from the tortured grammar, what can Edward McMillan-Scott possibly mean by a ‘tug of love’?

One shudders at the image…

So here’s a more innocent interpretation: