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Naz Shah shared and liked the post by a parody account of newspaper columnist and left-wing political commentator Owen Jones. The post, said: “Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.” She has been heavily criticised and fellow politicians have demanded she resigns as she is “unfit for public office”. Ms Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West, later deleted the retweet and unliked the post.

The British-born Muslim's tweet came less than a week after Rotherham MP Sarah Champion, who was shadow women and equalities minister, was forced from Labour’s frontbench for saying Britain had a problem with Pakistani men abusing young white girls. Her comments came following the sentencing of 17 Asian men for grooming and sexually exploiting at least 20 young girls in Newcastle. Rebecca Hilsenrath, the Equality and Human Rights Commission chief, condemned Ms Shah’s actions. She said: “Ms Shah should know better.

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“We need to keep the victims of these horrific crimes at the heart of the debate and always remember that diversity is not served by silence.” Ms Shah was also embroiled in a race-row last week when she attacked a Sun journalist for writing a column saying MPs had to tackle what he deemed “the Muslim problem” and said Ms Champion was one of the few politicians prepared to speak out. Ms Shah coordinated 107 cross-party politicians to sign an open letter to the newspaper condemning the column for using “Nazi-like language”. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn praised her for the letter.

Last year Ms Shah was suspended by Labour for anti-semitic online posts, including one in which she shared Facebook posts calling for Israel to be uprooted and dumped in America. In another she likened Israel’s policies to those of Hitler, writing: “The Jews are rallying.” She blamed her anti-semitism on “ignorance". Jane Collins, the UKIP MEP who twice ran against Ms Champion in Rotherham, and last week supported her, called for Ms Shah to resign.

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Getty Sarah Champion was banished from Labour's frontbenches for speaking out against child sex abuse