A prospective Liverpool MP has apologised for sharing abuse against female politicians.
Ian Byrne recently secured Labour’s nomination for the West Derby ward in the upcoming General Election after beating Angela Coleman by just three votes.
But the local councillor is facing scrutiny over his previous social media activity that included sharing a photo which attacked House of Lords peer Michelle Mone.
The image claimed Baroness Mone, the founder of underwear brand Ultimo, had betrayed her working-class roots while a caption said ‘hit the c*** where it hurts’.
LBC have also revealed that other unsavoury messages about politicians had been discovered on Mr Byrne’s Facebook account, which has since been deleted.
They included referring to Esther McVey as a ‘b*****d… and soon to be gone’ in a post about the Liverpool-born Tory MP possibly losing her parliamentary seat.
Another post from 2014 referred to Prince William as a ‘horse faced t**t’.
Last month Mr Byrne, who co-founded community initiative Fans Supporting Foodbanks, apologised for a variety of remarks he had made on Facebook.
They included homophobic slurs, comparing the Paralympic Games to ‘a night out in Salford’ and insinuating Boris Johnson’s mother had been raped by Jimmy Savile.
Mr Byrne insisted that he was both ‘mortified’ and ‘sincerely sorry for the hurt and offence they caused’ following the expose by the Mail on Sunday.
In a statement on Friday, he said: “I am deeply sorry for the inappropriate and offensive language from the shop floor that I used several years ago on social media and would not use today.
“I also shared a meme about a Conservative peer who voted to take away tax credits from the poorest and most vulnerable people.
“The person who originally posted the meme had used an unacceptable and misogynist language to describe her. This was not my language and I sincerely apologise.
“I’m a very different person now and I’m grateful that the labour and trade union movement has enabled me and so many other working class people to represent and fight for our communities.
“Through setting up Fans Supporting Foodbanks, I’ve been working to overcome divisions and bring our Liverpool community together and if I’m elected that’s what I will continue to do, transforming our communities in the interests of the many, not the elite few.”