AN ACTIVIST was left furious today after a Tory MP used smears against Jeremy Corbyn to attack her for raising concerns over human rights breaches in the policing Bill.

Richard Holden posted a Facebook comment about the former Labour leader in response to a constituent, Laura Nicol, who had demanded protection for human rights against the government’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill.

The Tory MP for North West Durham visited Ms Nicol’s profile page and said he noticed she had a “restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn” tag. Mr Corbyn was denied the Labour whip by his successor Keir Starmer after he said the scale of anti-semitism in Labour had been exaggerated by his political opponents.