MPs to reveal general election abuse against candidates

The shocking extent of abuse suffered by candidates in last month's general election is to be exposed in an unprecedented Commons debate. In an hour-long debate, MPs will hear first-hand accounts of anti-Semitic attacks, racist abuse, intimidation, smears, slashed tyres and even death threats. Many of the incidents are contained in a new report by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Against Anti-Semitism, which is demanding new laws and tougher discipline by parties.

Examples of abuse during the general election campaign in the group's report include:

:: A Conservative candidate, Ameet Jogia, was subjected to racial abuse at a polling station
:: Conservative MP Sheryll Murray's election posters were daubed with swastikas
:: Former Tory minister Andrew Percy was said to have been called "Zionist scum"
:: Former Labour MP Iain Wright claimed he was assaulted and his family threatened with violence while he was delivering leaflets
:: Labour MP Naz Shah, previously suspended for her own anti-Semitic posts, was herself a victim of anti-Semitism at hustings.

The Commons debate, thought to be the first of its kind, is being staged by Conservative MP Simon Hart, who is expected to accuse Jeremy Corbyn's hard-left Momentum supporters of intimidation.


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