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Islington Tribune - by MARK BLUNDEN
Published: 15 June 2007

Boris joins Emily in bid to save park

TORY MP Boris Johnson – who lives in Holloway – has signed an Early Day Labour motion in the Commons deploring the selling off of Barnard Park in Barnsbury for housing.
The motion, which was tabled by Islington South and Finsbury MP Emily Thornberry, is also being strongly supported by Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, Hampstead MP Glenda Jackson, Holborn MP Frank Dobson and former Labour leadership challenger John McDonnell MP.
The motion “deplores” the actions of Islington’s Liberal Democrat council in “selling off areas of Barnard Park to be built over”.
It also “urges” the council and others to respond to local people’s priorities by defending and improving London’s parks “rather than abandoning them to property developers”.

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