Article 6QBH9 Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for likening outdoor smoking ban to Holocaust

Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for likening outdoor smoking ban to Holocaust

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Nadeem Badshah
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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 Niemoller's 1946 poem First They Came, about inaction from within Germany against the Nazis.

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