Second quote of the day 10th September 2024

  "'I felt so strongly I abstained'.  The ultimate definition of a politician without a backbone."

Iain Dale today on X, former Twitter, in regard to the Labour MPs who abstained on the proposal to take Winter Fuel Allowance from ten million pensioners. Just one Labour MP - Jon Trickett - did have the backbone to vote against the measure. Fifty three abstained.

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