Jeff Henderson's letter,(January 21) criticising York MP Hugh Bayley for taking his kids out of school for a family holiday is to be regretted.
As the Speaker of the House of Commons rebuked a Tory backbench MP when he made a similarly cheap remark in the chamber, "we do not use our children as battering rams."
Alexander Fraser,
Press Officer,
York Constituency Labour Party,
Holgate Road,
York.
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