News - Middle East: In yet another crackdown on freedom of speech, the British parliament is considering the revocation of a security pass held by former Labour MP Chris Williamson over hosting a show broadcast on Iran’s international English television news network, Press TV.

According to an exclusive report published by the Daily Mail on Friday, parliamentary authorities were facing calls to rethink the granting of a security pass to Williamson as the 66-year-old fronts a popular show on Press TV.

Williamson, an MP for Derby North between 2017 and 2019 and who served as a shadow minister under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, enjoys privileged access to the British parliament by holding one of more than 300 passes doled out to former MPs.

The paper said current MPs had expressed fears about a "mouthpiece” for what they claimed to be "hostile foreign governments," and his having “unfettered access” to the parliamentary estate.

“The willingness of these parliamentarians to make utterly baseless accusations about me, while remaining silent about hundreds of MPs acting as lobbyists for the hostile regime in Tel Aviv, reveals their shameless hypocrisy,” Williamson told MailOnline.

The former Labour MP has been a host of Press TV's Palestine Declassified show since March 2022 after previously appearing as a guest on the English language news channel.

The popular show sheds light on the British government’s veiled support for atrocities and aggression perpetrated by the Israeli occupying regime against Palestinians, as well as London’s back channel dealings with Tel Aviv.