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Jewish MPs will be offered bodyguards at Labour conference

Protection will be offered to those MPs attending next month’s Labour Party conference

August 26, 2018 09:58
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Jewish MPs will be given bodyguards at next month’s Labour Party Conference as fears around their safety grow amid the antisemitism row that engulfs the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn.

Protection will be offered to those MPs attending who have been victims of abuse from people who claim to support Mr Corbyn on social media.

It comes after Luciana Berger said she felt ‘unwelcome’ in her own party after a video emerged showing Mr Corbyn making seemingly xenophobic comments about ‘Zionists’ of having no sense of English irony. 

The Liverpool Wavertree MP said the Labour leader’s comments in the 2013 speech were "inexcusable".