Creasy slams pro-life party over its effort to unseat her

AN outgoing Labour MP central to the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland has hit back at a pro-life party who are focusing their general election campaign on unseating her.

Walthamstow candidate Stella Creasy, a vocal campaigner for abortion rights, called the Christian Peoples Alliance a party which “promotes hatred in many forms” after it emerged they were campaigning for the sitting MP’s seat.

CPA leader Sidney Cordle said that although the party was “concentrating” on the seat in northeast London, they are expected to stand about 30 candidates.

It comes after Ms Creasy, who is heavily pregnant, supported efforts to bring about a change in the law to see abortion decriminalised in Northern Ireland.

She was targeted by a group calling itself the Centre For Bioethical Reform UK and a billboard poster was put up in her constituency by the group, with an image of a foetus and a link to a website called Stop Stella.

Mr Cordle said the party was working with CBR UK on the election campaign, as well as other Christian organisations who he declined to name.

He said CBR UK was “very keen” to have a candidate in the upcoming general election and had asked CPA to stand in Walthamstow, adding: “They said they would help us with the campaign.”

Referring to the CBR via an article on Twitter reported by HuffPost, Ms Creasy wrote: “This party promotes hatred in many forms — whether women’s human rights, LGBTQ rights, of Islam or the EU.”