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.
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