Labour MP Jess Phillips in angry confrontation with anti-LGBT education protester outside Birmingham school

Labour MP Jess Phillips has been filmed having an angry confrontation with the leader of a protest against same-sex education at a Birmignham school.

The Birmingham Yardley MP confronted Shakeel Afsar, who is fronting the campaign against Anderton Park Primary teaching pupils about same-sex relationships.

In a heated row outside the school, which was filmed by BBC News, Ms Phillips accused Mr Afsar and the other protesters of damaging the reputation of Birmingham's "peaceful and loving" Muslim community.

She said she would be asking for an exclusion zone to allow pupils to attend lessons away from the protests taking place outside.

The row is the latest in a long-running dispute between the school and parents over its insistence on teaching students about same-sex relationships.

Asked why she had "not supported" the parent's protests, Mr Phillips told Mr Afsar: "I don't agree with the protests. I don't agree that you get to pick and choose which equality you can and can't have

"Our equality laws protect us all. I want to protect you. I want to protect the Muslim Community...The worst thing about it is it is damaging the reputation of a peaceful and loving community that I have lived in my entire life."

She added: "I am going to call for an exclusion area to protect the 700 children in this school."

Mr Afsar, who does not have children at the school, accused the MP of being "so intolerant to us parents" and claimed that 600 of the Anderton Park's 700 pupils "had not turned up to school today" after being kept away from lessons by angry parents.

But Ms Phillips said: "That's simply not true...I've just been inside the school and that is completely untrue."

Protests have been taking place outside the school for months but the row escalated on Sunday night when local residents clashed with activists who had turned up to display rainbow flags and banners supporting the school's policy. Police were called to the scene and were stationed outside the school on Monday. Activists claimed they had been threatened and had eggs thrown at them.

One of the LGBT rights campaigners, who gave their name as Tracy, told Birmingham Live: “It was awful. I was shaking. We had no intention of disturbing anyone - we were putting up the banners and messages we had made to show solidarity with staff. We wanted them to see something positive when they turned up for work, and to see they had our backing,”

One protester who is opposing the claimed was video claiming the school's teachings were "so against the world of God and "not acceptable in Islam". He added: "God created man and then he created woman for man's pleasure and for his companionship."

In response, the school's headteacher, Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson wrote on Twitter: "Not this woman, or any of the women in my school, or any of the girls at Anderton Park. This is why we have laws on equality. What shameful words and behaviour that have been invited onto the pavements of my lovely primary school."