By Jennifer Scott, political reporter
Senior Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge tells Sky News threats in the direction of MPs have elevated for the reason that battle between Israel and Hamas.
Muslim MPs particularly are having a “horrible, horrible time”, she says, as rows over whether or not to again a ceasefire within the area rage on.
“Security has needed to be elevated and other people have been extra guarded,” she provides. “But it doesn’t have an effect on me, I will not let it have an effect on me.”
Dame Margaret believes the Speaker was “proper” to decide on the Labour modification in yesterday’s debate, saying: “If you will have a debate on such a contentious and febrile difficulty, it appears to me to be loopy that standing orders would get in the way in which of everybody with the ability to assist the position they wish to.
“People are dying. They are dying, dying, dying as we converse, and we’ve got these rows about procedures.”
She additionally praised Sir Lindsay Hoyle for having all the time made MPs’ security a “precedence”, even earlier than he took the chair.
The Jewish MP stated he “talked about it loads within the early days” when he was deputy speaker, and he was “all the time the person to go to” when she confronted antisemitic abuse throughout Jeremy Corbyn’s tenure main the Labour Party.
Dame Margaret stated his apology to the House final evening “wasn’t wanted”, including: “If you will have debate, should not you set it in context and let democracy prevail?”
