MPs have demanded that controversial rapper Bobby Vylan "should be arrested and prosecuted" like Lucy Connolly following their "offensive" chants at Glastonbury Festival.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has demanded that the rapper, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, should face consequences for his words or risk becoming the centre of a fresh "two-tier justice" row.
Robinson-Foster "should be arrested and prosecuted immediately", Philp said.
"A failure to do so would be a clear example of two-tier justice under Sir Keir Starmer and his Attorney General, Lord Hermer".
While Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader, argued that Robinson-Foster's actions were "far worse than what Lucy Connolly did", and labelled his chanting "clearly antisemitic" and "an incitement to violence".
Lucy Connolly received a 31-month prison sentence for "inciting racial hatred" through a social media post following Axel Rudakubana's Southport murders.
Now, Avon and Somerset Police are examining footage from the festival after the rapper repeatedly chanted "death, death to the IDF" during his performance.
Festival organisers have condemned the performance, with Emily Eavis warning that his words "very much crossed a line" and declaring there is "no place... for anti-Semitism, hate speech or incitement to violence".
The BBC, meanwhile, has faced fury over its decision to broadcast the controversial performance.
Sir Keir Starmer condemned Robinson-Foster's "appalling hate speech" and warned that the BBC urgently "needed to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast".
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, suggested "the BBC's producers would have known about Bob Vylan's hate-filled lyrics", and has argued that continuing to broadcast the performance "shows the inbuilt liberal bias of so many in editorial positions".
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MPs have demanded that controversial rapper Bobby Vylan "should be arrested and prosecuted" like Lucy Connolly following their "offensive" chants at Glastonbury Festival.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp has demanded that the rapper, whose real name is Pascal Robinson-Foster, should face consequences for his words or risk becoming the centre of a fresh "two-tier justice" row.
Robinson-Foster "should be arrested and prosecuted immediately", Philp said.
"A failure to do so would be a clear example of two-tier justice under Sir Keir Starmer and his Attorney General, Lord Hermer".
While Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader, argued that Robinson-Foster's actions were "far worse than what Lucy Connolly did", and labelled his chanting "clearly antisemitic" and "an incitement to violence".
Lucy Connolly received a 31-month prison sentence for "inciting racial hatred" through a social media post following Axel Rudakubana's Southport murders.
Now, Avon and Somerset Police are examining footage from the festival after the rapper repeatedly chanted "death, death to the IDF" during his performance.
Festival organisers have condemned the performance, with Emily Eavis warning that his words "very much crossed a line" and declaring there is "no place... for anti-Semitism, hate speech or incitement to violence".
The BBC, meanwhile, has faced fury over its decision to broadcast the controversial performance.
Sir Keir Starmer condemned Robinson-Foster's "appalling hate speech" and warned that the BBC urgently "needed to explain how these scenes came to be broadcast".
Robert Jenrick, the Shadow Justice Secretary, suggested "the BBC's producers would have known about Bob Vylan's hate-filled lyrics", and has argued that continuing to broadcast the performance "shows the inbuilt liberal bias of so many in editorial positions".
More to follow...
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