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Dorries votes with Tories days after FBU T-shirt pose
CONFUSED Tory MP Nadine Dorries voted in favour of Con-Dem attacks on firefighters’ pensions — days after posing for a photo with a Fire Brigades Union (FBU) T-shirt.
Ms Dorries was pictured holding up the FBU T-shirt at a meeting in Parliament with firefighters from her Mid Bedfordshire constituency.
But Ms Dorries was among 313 MPs who marched through the lobbies on Monday night to scupper Labour’s motion to stop the changes.
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