A social media post by Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded as 'repugnant' by the Board of Deputies of British Jews for likening the Labour Government's proposed smoking ban to the Holocaust.
A social media post by Conservative MP Esther McVey has been branded as "repugnant" by the Board of Deputies of British Jews for likening the Labour Government's proposed smoking ban to the Holocaust. The MP for Tatton took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share Martin Niemoller's 1946 poem "First They Came". The poem includes the lines: "Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out.
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