LABOUR MP Naz Shah glorified a speech by late Apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela about burning political rivals to death.

The controversial Bradford MP - suspended in 2016 for antisemitism - hastily deleted a “RIP” tweet heaping praise on ex-wife of ex-South African President Nelson Mandela.

1 This is certainly not the first time the MP has attracted controversy Credit: Sundog Pictures

It had included a graphic saying “with our box of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate our country” - a reference to barbaric method of killing people with a tyre full of petrol placed around the neck.

Winnie Mandela who died on Saturday left a mixed legacy - including her 1986 speech praising the tactic.

The brutal “necklacing” process was used by anti-Apartheid campaigners against those who they believe supported the South African regime in the 1980s.

A rubber tyre would be forced over the victim's neck and arms and then filled with petrol and set on fire.

Mobs used the tactic to murder rivals with it taking up to 20 minutes for the victim to die from horrendous burns.

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It comes after Ms Shah was accused of using social media to urge the victims of Rotherham sex abuse scandal to keep quiet to protect multiculturalism.

And her tweets about Israel in 2016 triggered the party’s antisemitism row that has rumbled for more than two years.

Last night the Labour Party did not respond to requests for comment.