"The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.“


-Diane Abbott

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The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

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