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Message to minister with ‘blood on her hands’

CAMPAIGNERS demonstrated at an international golfing event in Tory MP Esther McVey’s Merseyside constituency yesterday to demand she be kicked out at the next general election, writes Peter Lazenby.

The Wirral West MP (pictured) will attend Cabinet after this week’s ministerial reshuffle but campaigners argue she should be ditched for what she’s done to disabled people as employment minister.

She supports sanctions delaying benefits to disabled people for up to two years, has attacked the Citizens Advice Bureau, denied foodbanks are linked to welfare cuts and said “many of those classed as disabled are not.”

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