A Labour MP has become the first from Sir Keir Starmer's party to call for Lucy Connolly to be freed from prison.
Mary Glindon, the MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, has broken ranks with the party by signing an early day motion (EDM) drafted by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe.
Lucy Connolly was jailed in October last year for 31 months after pleading guilty to a charge of inciting racial hatred. She lost an appeal into her sentence earlier this week.
Just hours after Axel Rudakubana murdered three girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance club in Southport, Connolly posted the tirade on X.
Mary Glindon has signed the motion by the former Reform MP
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She posted: "Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f***ing hotels full of the b******s for all I care, while you’re at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them.
"I feel physically sick knowing what these [Southport] families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist, so be it.
Glindon has now become the first Labour MP to sign the EDM drafted by the Great Yarmouth MP.
She told The Telegraph: "I simply signed the EDM because I was very upset that Lucy had lost her appeal, and that her young daughter would be without her mother for a longer period."
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Islington North MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn signed the petition before withdrawing his name
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Glindon told The Telegraph: "In my opinion, Lucy doesn’t pose a threat to the public. She seems to be paying a heavy price for what she did."
She said while "Lucy’s impetuous tweet was not only unthinkable but vile in content" she added: "Lucy has experienced the pain of losing a child and could be forgiven for a sudden, otherwise unthinkable reaction – one she quickly corrected."
The first person to sign the EDM drafted by Lowe was former Labour leader and Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, who then withdrew his support for the motion just hours later.
Conservative MPs have also signed up for the EDM, including former Education Secretary Sir Gavin Williamson and shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Romford MP Andrew Rosindell.
Romford MP Andrew Rosindell has signed the EDM
GB NEWSRaymond Connolly, the husband of Lucy, has claimed that his wife is being "made an example of" under the UK's "two tier justice system."
He told GB News in an exclusive interview: "I see on the TV in the paper that there is a really big inconsistency. I am going to take it personally.
"I look at Lucy and I just think that they are making a big example of her.
"Even today I was walking in the shop and people were looking at me. They came up to me and said are you Ray Connolly? They were so harsh with your wife."
