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Tory MP Esther McVey has defiantly stated she “won’t be bullied” after being branded “repugnant” by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Responding to the news of Sir Keir Starmer’s proposed smoking ban in some public spaces, the former minister for ‘common sense’ posted a famous Martin Niemöller poem about inaction from within Germany against the Nazis during the Second World War. Accompanying the poem, McVey said the words were “pertinent” in relation to Starmer’s smoking ban. Speaking on GB News, she hit back at claims she is drawing on the Holocaust to make a political point and said her…

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