Last week Dawn Butler used an appearance on Question Time to reveal that she hadn’t actually gone up to campaign in Copeland ahead of the party’s disastrous by-election result, as she suffers from… car sickness:
DB: I didn’t go to Copeland as I suffer from car sickness and I heard the roads are really bad. But I did a lot of phone…
DD: That doesn’t sound like a warrior…
DB: I didn’t think I’d be much good to them getting there all green and sick.
DD: Don’t you ever go by car any distance?
While Mr S felt sympathy for the Labour MP’s plight, Steerpike couldn’t help but notice that Butler hasn’t always been so averse to the open road. In fact, the MP does appear to be able to go by car in London at least — expensing over £120 worth of taxi journeys back in 2007.
Taxi for Dawn?
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