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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Rachel Wearmouth

Tory says voters should back them as 'people still trust GPs despite Harold Shipman'

The would-be Tory MP for Wakefield has urged people to vote Conservative because "we still trust GPs" after Harold Shipman killed 250 people.

Nadeem Ahmed is bidding to replace Imran Ahmad Khan, the former Conservative MP who triggered a by-election in West Yorkshire after he was jailed for sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.

The Tory candidate left people shocked, however, after he said the ex-MP was "one bad apple" before launching into a bizarre speech about Shipman.

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