Fury as Labour MP calls for Pakistan airport amid Birmingham bin chaos

A Birmingham MP has provoked a furious backlash for continuing to publicly fight for an airport in Pakistan - despite the city’s bin strike crisis rumbling on.

Tahir Ali, Labour MP for Hall Green and Moseley, first came under fire last month for supporting a campaign calling for a new airport to be built in Mirpur, Kashmir, along with 19 other MPs.

He claimed the failure to build an airport in Mirpur caused ‘significant issues to a number of my constituents who are having to drive over three hours to get to the nearest airport in Pakistan’.

But critics pointed out that he was an MP in Birmingham, not Kashmir, and his constituents were facing a far more urgent crisis at home as the city’s binmen began an all-ou...
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