Labour's Apsana Begum addresses The World Transformed
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.”
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