APSANA BEGUM has said she refuses to be silenced by her party after accusing the Labour leadership of abandoning her amid a “chilling” campaign of abuse. 

The Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse, who is Britain’s first hijabi-wearing parliamentarian, has recently returned to work after signing off sick in June amid what she described as a “sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse” by her local Labour-led council and ex-husband. 

In one of her first public appearances since resuming her seat, the MP told the closing rally of The World Transformed festival in Liverpool: “The level of inhumanity towards me has just been chilling.”