Esther McVey quoted poem about complicity in Holocaust to criticise Labour plan to end smoking in beer gardens
Esther McVey’s post on X was criticised by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Board of Deputies of British Jews called it ‘repugnant’.Esther McVey’s post on X was criticised by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, and the Board of Deputies of British Jews called it ‘repugnant’.
“We would strongly encourage the MP for Tatton to delete her tweet and apologise for this breathtakingly thoughtless comparison.”She said: “Nobody is suggesting that banning smoking outside pubs can be equated with what happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis. It is ridiculous for anyone to even suggest that was what I was doing.
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