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Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for using Holocaust poem to criticise smoking ban
Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens
The Conservative MP Esther McVey has been urged to “get a grip” after she posted a poem about the Holocaust to criticise government plans to introduce outdoor smoking bans.
McVey, the MP for Tatton and a former cabinet minister, posted on X the words of Martin Niemöller’s 1946 poem First They Came, about inaction from within Germany against the Nazis.
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