Model Munroe Bergdorf has stepped down from a Labour advisory panel for LGBT issues, blaming "attacks" from Conservative newspapers like the Daily Mail for stoking "relentless online abuse".

Bergdorf — who was sacked by L'Oreal for comments calling out white privilege last year — had been appointed by Labour's shadow equalities minister, Dawn Butler, to the LGBT panel.

It led to more coverage of the 29-year-old's previous tweets, including those that showed the model calling someone a "hairy barren lesbian" and another a "butch lezza" on Twitter.



On Tuesday morning, Bergdorf said she had decided to step down from the panel, hitting out at the "transphobic rightist agendas" of the "conservative right-wing press".

"Following last week's exciting announcement that I had accepted a place on an LGBT advisory board assembled to offer counsel to Dawn Butler, the Labour party's women and equalities minister, it is with great sadness that I have decided to step down," Bergdorf said in statement posted to Twitter.

"This is a decision that I've had to make due to endless attacks on my character by the conservative right wing press and relentless online abuse. I refuse to be painted as a villain or used as a pawn in the press' efforts, especially those at The Daily Mail, to discredit the Labour Party and push their transphobic rightist agendas."