Posted: Wed 28th Jun 2017

Video: Ian Lucas ‘Trolls’ Prime Minister – Invites Her Back To Wrexham

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This article is old - Published: Wednesday, Jun 28th, 2017

Wrexham’s MP Ian Lucas invited the Prime Minister to revisit Wrexham, hoping she would conduct another u-turn on local soil.

Mr Lucas was third up on today’s Order Paper for the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the new Parliament and took the opportunity to make a serious point, as well as poking fun at her campaign stop during the General Election.

You can read our write up of the visit from the campaign here, with a second secret visit also being locally panned.

Mr Lucas thanked the Prime Minister for coming to Wrexham in a now infamous visit where she was widely criticised over her so called ‘dementia tax’ and a ‘widely welcomed u-turn’. Mr Lucas invited her back for a similar visit ‘reversing her appalling cuts to police budgets which my constituents want to see the back of’.

Mrs May responded pointing out ‘we are protecting police budgets’ adding that ‘reforms to policing’ were taking place. Mrs May said, ‘It is not about the number of police on the streets it is about what happens to crime, and crime has fallen to a record low.”

Mr Lucas tweeted from the Commons shortly after:

Various political pundits and reporters commented on today’s question, with the BBC’s Political Editor calling it ‘trolling’:

Mrs May did not decline a visit to Wrexham, nor accept, leaving the door open for a possible visit.

The full exchange can be viewed below:



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