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ED MILIBAND shamed Business Minister Anna Soubry yesterday after she condemned Hatfield coalmine to closure, saying that her decision to cut off cash was “not just, fair or right.”
The former Labour leader confronted Ms Soubry in a Commons debate that he had secured just two days after she pulled the plug on the pit’s emergency funding.
He paid tribute to the “hard work solidarity and comradeship” of workers at Hatfield, which is in Mr Miliband’s Doncaster North constituency and one of just three deep pits left in Britain.
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