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A Labour MP today revealed she has been subject to 25,000 incidents of abuse, much of it anti-Semitic, and now requires police protection.

Ruth Smeeth said abuse was “becoming normal” for some Labour MPs seen as critics of Jeremy Corbyn.

Ms Smeeth, 37, made headlines when she walked out of the launch of Shami Chakrabarti’s inquiry into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party after being heckled by a Momentum member.

Since then, she revealed, she had suffered racial slurs and had been called a “CIA/ MI5/Mossad informant”, a “dyke”, and a “f***ing traitor”.

“There are so many it’s becoming normal,” she said. “And that’s difficult.”. She added: “It’s the opposite of what we promised after Jo Cox was murdered.”

The Stoke MP, who was raised in east London, said she now has “security” organised by the parliamentary authority and police.