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Left MPs protest at mayor's 'misleading' tube strike stance

Labour MPs John McDonnell and Ian Lavery led a protest yesterday against London mayor Boris Johnson’s “one-sided and misleading” propaganda attacking striking Tube workers.

The MPs accused Mr Johnson of wasting farepayers’ and taxpayers’ money on funding adverts which “only serve to inflame the dispute.”

They put down a Commons early day motion against the adverts and expressing concern that there had been no public consultation on the future of Tube ticket offices.

The motion called on the mayor to “halt plans to close Tube ticket offices and instead hold a full public consultation to seek the views of passengers and other stakeholders.”

It condemned as “deeply regrettable” the use of public money to attack Tube workers “who have been hailed as heroes after Tube bombings and delivering a successful Olympics.”

Other Labour MPs who have signed the motion include Jeremy Corbyn, Kelvin Hopkins, Austin Mitchell, Grahame Morris, Virendra Sharma and Chris Williamson.

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