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Villa Park cannot be a “no-go” area for Jews, Ed Miliband has said.

Asked on Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips if that was the case as a result of the decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from attending a match there next month, the Energy Secretary said: “No, and it can’t be, and I’m very, very clear about that.”

He said: “We cannot have a situation where any area is a no-go area for people of a particular religion or from a particular country, and we’ve got to stamp out all forms of prejudice, antisemitism, Islamophobia, wherever we find them.”

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Asked if a petition, supported by independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr Ayoub Khan, which called for the match to be halted and for a boycott of Isr

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