London: A female Labour MP has criticised Jeremy Corbyn after she was forced to cancel a constituency surgery following police warnings that her safety was at risk just weeks after the murder of Jo Cox. Angela Eagle, who last week pulled out of the Labour leadership race, said she feared for her staff after a brick was thrown through the window of her constituency office and she was subject to alleged death threats. She said that in the wake of the abuse police had advised her that her safety would be at risk if she pushed ahead with the public constituency meetings, which were due to be held in a cafe and a supermarket. She accused Corbyn of “stirring” hostility in her Wallasey constituency and said he had created a “permissive” environment for the abuse of MPs by his supporters. There has been a series of incidents in which female MPs critical of Corbyn have been threatened with rape, urged to commit suicide and received death threats. Labour last week suspended the Wallasey constituency group, on the Wirral, following complaints from Eagle of “bullying, intimidation, misogyny and homophobia”. She told The Daily Telegraph: “I think he has contributed to this. It’s all very well to condemn it but there’s a permissive environment. You can make any number of ritual condemnations as you like but you have got to be judged by your actions not just words. “He has been stirring, he needs to be held to account. We have contacted the police and they have said we should cancel surgeries for safety reasons.

“I’m afraid for my staff. It’s them that have been up there not me. It’s them that have had to field the calls.”

She said that the Labour leader had “addressed” a meeting of activists in her constituency via speaker phone despite the allegations of intimidation. Corbyn’s allies have admitted that he spoke with activists but denied that it was a formal meeting. A spokesman for Corbyn said that the party leader had repeatedly “called for a kinder politics” and added that he would ensure any complaints are properly investigated. It came as the Labour leader was accused of “window dressing” and “hypocrisy” after surrounding himself with women supporters ahead of a campaign launch.

Corbyn yesterday called for small businesses to publish details of the difference in pay between their male and female staff as he promised to work to end gender discrimination. However, he refused demands to publish the gender pay gap within his leadership team amid suggestions that his own female staff are paid a third less than men for equivalent jobs. A senior Labour source said internal documents show that men in the leader’s office are paid thousands of pounds more than their female colleagues. Asked whether he would promise to publish details of the pay gap in his own team, Corbyn declined to commit to any specific date. A spokesman for Corbyn said: “Staff salaries will be published by the Labour Party under new Short money rules. Before that happens, consent has to be sought from staff and trade unions have to be engaged in a process of consultation.”

Short money is the public funding provided to the Opposition to help pay its costs. Wes Streeting, a Labour MP, said: “I am sure Jeremy won’t mind publishing details about the gender pay gap in his own office, otherwise he is at serious risk of looking like a hypocrite.” Another Labour MP described Corbyn’s decision to surround himself with a dozen women ahead of his launch as a “stunt”. “The stench of hypocrisy around Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership on women is overwhelming,” the MP said. “This is the man who sat silently by as women MPs were subjected to abhorrent abuse. Women in the Labour Party need to be more than just window dressing for Jeremy Corbyn.”

Jo Cox, a Labour MP, died after she was shot and stabbed multiple times following a meeting in her constituency last month.