Starmer Ignores Abuse of Muslim Labour MP

The treatment of Labour MP Apsana Begum should horrify any decent person. A self-identified survivor of domestic abuse, as journalist Rivkah Brown puts it, 'her mental and physical health ravaged by what she called “a sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse and harassment” culminating in a trigger ballot process overseen by friends of her ex-husband, the MP for Poplar and Limehouse was admitted to A&E and signed off work the next day.'

But when Keir Starmer and Labour general secretary David Evans were emailed by an independent domestic violence advocate working with Refuge - which said "I believe what we are seeing in this current trigger process is a further extension of the abuse that she has already endured" - neither bothered to even reply.

What does this tell us about the treatment of one of the few Muslim female Labour MPs - and if this was an MP on the right of the party, how different would her treatment and the media response be? We are joined by Rivkah Brown who talks us through this truly harrowing and disturbing case.

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