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'F*** OFF, JEW W***E'
Police investigating anti-Semitic email sent to Labour MP Ruth Smeeth
POLICE are set to investigate after a Labour MP was called a “Jew whore”.
The insult was in an email sent to Ruth Smeeth, who is Jewish, after she spoke in the Commons during an anti-Semitism debate.
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A member of her office confirmed to The Sun on Sunday the email had been passed to police.
She finished her speech at 5.54pm and got the email five hours later.
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The message, sent by a Paul Gallagher, called her six-minute intervention in the debate a “rant”.
It added: “F*** off Jew whore” before signing off calling her “vermin”.
The revelation comes as Jeremy Corbyn struggles with the anti-Semitism row engulfing his party.
- MR Corbyn “turned his back” on the anti-Semitism debate on Tuesday for a tea break, Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said, adding: “I saw him leave the chamber. He looked very uncomfortable.”
Prime Minister Theresa May criticises Jeremy Corbyn during Prime Minister's Questions for allowing anti-Semitism to 'run rife' in the Labour Party
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