‘Get in the ovens’ death threat for ex-Labour MP

AN MP who challenged Jeremy Corbyn over anti-Semitism has received hate mail saying she should burn ‘in the ovens’.

Joan Ryan, who was among nine MPs to leave Labour last month, called police after receiving two death threats.

One was an unstamped handwritten note delivered to her Commons office. It branded the Enfield North MP’s a ‘****sucking Jewish **** who defected to Israel’ and said she should be raped and set on fire. Another, sent to her constituency office in north London said: ‘Stop telling lies about Jeremy Corbyn – he is a decent man, you lying Jew whore. You need to be shoved right back in the ovens.’

Miss Ryan is not Jewish but has been an outspoken critic of Labour’s handling of antiSemitism. She said: ‘That people can send such disgusting messages is a testament to how low our politics has sunk ... the fact that some think they can do so explains why many of us felt we had to quit the Labour Party.’