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    REFLECTIONS FROM SITTING MPS

    Oct 04, 2018 4 minutes
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    “WHENEVER THERE ARE REMEMBRANCE SERVICES PRETTY MUCH ALL MPS ATTEND TO PAY TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THAT WHICH WE ALL TAKE FOR GRANTED”

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    JIM FITZPATRICK MP


    CONSTITUENCY: POPLAR AND LIMEHOUSE

    PARTY: LABOUR

    WWI PREDECESSOR: SIR WILLIAM PEARCE (LIBERAL)


    Can you imagine MPs volunteering for military service today in circumstances similar to WWI?

    I wouldn’t have thought they would join up in the same numbers but clearly there are MPs who have been members of the armed forces. There are still MPs who are reservists and a number have been out to Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. I would not be at all surprised if there were MPs who would fulfil that expectation. I spent 23 years in

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