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Churchman criticised for shunning disabled protesters

LABOUR MP John McDonnell scolded the Dean of Westminster Abbey yesterday for ignoring Jesus’s teachings by snubbing a group of protesters with severe disabilities. 

Mr McDonnell put down a Commons motion congratulating activists for their weekend protest near the Abbey — but regretting the dean’s refusal to “even talk to the disabled protesters.”

Standing in the Commons, the left MP criticised the behaviour of the Very Reverend John Hall.

“I wonder what happened to the sermon on the mount?” Mr McDonnell asked.

Hundreds of protesters turned up with their carers and chained themselves together in Westminster Abbey gardens to protest against the proposed abolition of the independent living fund.

They aimed to camp out for three weeks and engage with parliamentarians, but 200 police swooped in and forcibly evicted them from the site.

Disabled People Against the Cuts will hold a protest tea party outside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in Tothill Street at 2pm this Friday.

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