Labour's Lavery invites Tory MP to Wansbeck to see the reality of austerity
Labour MP for the former mining constituency of Wansbeck invites James Cleverly after the Tory MP mocked Ken Loach's harrowing film I, Daniel Blake
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LABOUR Party chair Ian Lavery invited a senior Tory to visit a foodbank in north-east England after he described the film I, Daniel Blake as a “fiction.”
Mr Lavery, who represents the former mining constituency of Wansbeck, invited James Cleverly to meet people who have been badly hit by austerity.
Mr Cleverly mocked the Ken Loach film, which tells the tale of an unemployed worker struggling with a punitive benefit system.
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