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David Winnick

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Backbench Business
Thursday 27th February 2014

(10 years, 8 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Lansley Portrait Mr Lansley
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The workers in Harlow know who represents them.

David Winnick Portrait Mr David Winnick (Walsall North) (Lab)
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May I ask our proletarian comrade, the Leader of the House of Commons, whether, in his new capacity as a workers’ leader, he will arrange for portraits of the Tolpuddle martyrs to be displayed prominently in the House of Commons? Is it true that Tory central office is saying that those trade unionists, who were punished and deported to Australia, were leading officials of their local Conservative association?

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