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A reminder of Penny Mordaunt’s insult to firefighters…
Quality Street

ON December 23 2014, I was frantically scouring my networks for a festive story to round off a year — my first working for the Morning Star.

Then I stumbled across a Facebook post from firefighters in Cosham, a northern suburb of Portsmouth. 

A tub of Quality Street had been dropped off by their local MP, with a card “wishing you peace at Christmas.” So far, so good. 

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