There’s something wonderfully ironic about a Labour party that boasts about decency in politics yet has a frontbencher who tweets things like this:
Bravo to Helen Goodman, Labour’s Shadow Culture, Media and Sport Minister, who would be furiously demanding an apology from the Conservatives for a similar tweet.

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