Antony Higginbotham - Member of Parliament for Burnley and Padiham:

Labour's front bench needed reminding that it was the Labour Party who closed our A&E and ladened our schools with expensive PFI contracts. That's exactly what I said tonight!

Because I couldn't listen to the lectures talking down our agenda for change in Burnley and Padiham when that is their legacy.

We're now seeing major investment flooding in and real improvements happening - something we never saw before. It's not good enough to just talk the talk, you have to be prepared to walk the walk.

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