Shadow Business Secretary Alan Duncan will today table a Commons Motion calling on the Government to suspend its plans to close more than 2,500 Post Offices across the country.
Unfortunately this very welcome move from my Conservative colleague will have come too late to save those four Post Offices in Keighley and Ilkley - at Bradford Road in Stockbridge, East Morton, Highfield in Keighley and Leeds Road in Ilkley - that have already been served with closure notices.
As I have said repeatly since becoming Conservative Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Keighley and Ilkley, the loss of our local Post Offices will have an extremely detrimental impact on our community and, in particular, on elderly and disabled residents.
Local Labour MP Ann Cryer did nothing to defend the four condemned branches until it was too late.
It will be interesting in today's vote to see whether she now seeks to defend those Post Offices at risk in other MPs' constituencies despite doing nothing to save those in Keighley and Ilkley.
Alternatively she may decide to keep her line consistent and continue to support the Labour Government's organised destruction of our national Post Office network.
Either way, she'll be rightly labelled as a hypocrite.
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