BREAKING: Man ‘tries to break into Jess Phillips MP’s office shouting “Fascist”'
A man has tried to break into the constituency office of Jess Phillips MP shouting “Fascist”.
The Labour MP, who represents Birmingham Yardley, said a man has been arrested after trying to ‘kick the door’ of her constituency office while reportedly shouting that she was a fascist. She told LBC Radio: ‘I’ve only just heard about it myself but my staff had to be locked into my office while the man tried to smash the windows and kick the door, I believe.It comes after Jess Phillips was granted an urgent question by the Labour whips office to raise concerns aboutShe said the PM’s ‘humbug’ comment when told his language resulted in MPs being sent death threats was ‘completely part of a strategy to cause hatred in our country’.
In an emotionally charged statement, the MP said: ‘When I hear my friend’s murder and the way it has made me and my colleagues feel, and feel scared, described as “humbug” I actually don’t feel anger towards the prime minister.‘The people opposite me know how appalling it was to describe the murder of my friend as mere “humbug”.’
She made a plea to Mr Johnson to apologise for saying the best way to honor murdered MP Jo Cox – killed by a far-right extremist during the 2016 EU referendum campaign – was to ‘get Brexit done’.
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