Labour MP Naz Shah has been criticised for retweeting and liking a tweet saying abuse victims should ‘shut their mouths for the good of diversity’

A Labour MP has been criticised for sharing a Twitter post telling Rotherham sex abuse victims to ‘shut their mouths for the good of diversity’.

Naz Shah, who represents Bradford West, shared and liked a post tweeted out from a parody account of newspaper columnist Owen Jones.

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It said: ‘Those abused girls in Rotherham and elsewhere just need to shut their mouths. For the good of diversity.’

The 43-year-old later deleted her retweet and unliked the post.


But she was criticised by the Equality and Human Rights Commission chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath who said the MP should ‘know better’.

She deleted it shortly after (Picture: Twitter)

Ms Hilsenrath said: ‘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.’

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Ms Shah’s comments come just days after she attacked fellow Labour MP Sarah Champion for speaking out about the Rotherham sex scandal in article.



In the letter, published in The Sun, Ms Shah accused Ms Champion’s comments of being ‘blanket, racialised loaded statements’ which stigmatised the Pakistani community.

She added that the article was ‘irresponsible’ and set a ‘dangerous precedent’.

A spokeswoman for Naz Shah told the paper: ‘This was a genuine accident eight days ago that was rectified within minutes. To suggest otherwise is absolute nonsense.’

‘[Naz] has and will continue to advocate for all victims, and work towards eradicating this evil from society.’

Ms Shah was suspended by the Labour Party in 2016 for making anti-semitic comments online.