Labour MP who went against the grain during Commons tributes to Thatcher goes viral
It comes as several members of Sir Keir Starmer's shadow Cabinet lauded the former Conservative prime minister.
It comes as several members of Sir Keir Starmer's shadow Cabinet lauded the former Conservative prime minister.
"Margaret Thatcher did not 'deliver a decade of national renewal'. She delivered a decade of mass unemployment, deindustrialisation and the destruction of the welfare state", David Osland said.
The 'grafitti gran' remains at large, after she was caught on CCTV scrawling a swear word onto the statue of Margaret Thatcher.
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Peter Wright caused a sensation in the 1980s, with his lurid allegations.
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The Big Issue founder described the ex-PM as the "new inventor of social collapse expressed as benefit", a legacy that was continued by Tony Blair.
The Cabinet minister was speaking at the Convention of the North in Manchester.
"We never wanted this statue in the first place. When will the council tear it down???", one local resident said.
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