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Food workers condemn Tories for ‘allowing the drowning of refugees at sea’
A group of people are brought in to Dover, Kent, onboard a Border Force vessel following a small boat incident in the Channel

FOOD workers condemned Tory ministers for “allowing the drowning of refugees at sea” today.

A majority of delegates gathered in Staffordshire for the bakers’ union’s annual conference backed a motion which said that helping those in need is the “mark of a decent human being.”

Member Dougie Johnston said: “I have nothing but respect and admiration for these people who have had to flee war and dictatorships and risk their lives in dinghies to cross the English Channel or the Mediterranean.

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