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The former Cabinet minister saw a social media post, in which she shared Martin Niemoller’s 1946 poem First They Came, branded as ‘repugnant’.
The Tatton MP, who was the Conservative government’s ‘common sense minister’ until her party’s crushing general election defeat, posted the poem on X, formerly known as Twitter .
It includes the lines: ‘Then they came for the Jews. And I did not speak out.’ And Ms McVey added underneath the verse: ‘Pertinent words re Starmer’s smoking ban’.
But Ms McVey later doubled down and insisted she would not be ‘bullied into removing a tweet by people who are deliberately twisting the meaning of my words’.
In response to MsMcVey’s initial post, the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned the Tory MP for her choice of words
