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Respect refuse to vote for Troops out of Iraq

At Tuesday's Council meeting the Lib Dems put a motion down calling for the troops in Iraq to be withdrawn as soon as possible.

The response from Respect was to walk out and refuse to vote on it. They basically went in with Labour on the issue of Troops out of Iraq.

Quite surprising.

Comments

David Nikel said…
Has there been any follow-up to this John? I'd be interested to hear. David

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