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Pro-Israel MP tells of swastika daubing during election campaign

Sheryll Murray, a Conservative Friends of Israel supporter, used the first PMQs since the general election to raise the issue of intimidation of candidates during the campaign

June 28, 2017 12:22
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Sheryll Murray, the pro-Israel Conservative MP for South East Cornwall, has described the abuse she suffered during the general election campaign.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Ms Murray, a Conservative Friends of Israel supporter, told MPs that opponents had carved swastikas into her campaign posters and urinated on her office door.

She said: "Over the past months, I've had swastikas carved into posters, social media posts like ‘burn the witch’.

"People putting Labour Party leaflets on my home photographed them and pushed them through my letterbox.