BRADFORD West MP Naz Shah has said she was treated “inhumanely”and in an “undignified” manner when told she had to attend a Brexit vote in parliament despite being dosed up on morphine and dressed in her pyjamas.

The MP had been admitted to Bradford Royal Infirmary last Friday in excruciating pain.

An old injury caused when she had been hit by a hit and run driver in a stolen car in Bradford a few years ago had flared up and left her in agony.

She had asked to be paired with a Tory MP to cancel out each other’s vote for the amendment to the bill on Wednesday, a system which allows MPs to be absent from parliament when there is a valid reason, but this was refused.

So she was forced to get off her sickbed and her staff drove her to London while she laid in the back of the car.

“Tory Whips told me I could stay in the car park and someone would come out and “nod through” my vote.

“Then they changed their minds when I got there and said they would not allow a nod through and I was forced to go into the House of Commons to sit through a three hour debate.”

The MP had to be wheeled in while sitting in a wheelchair with Ms Shah carrying a sick bowl on her lap.

“To be fair they did provide a room where I could go and lie down for a while but the whole thing was really undignified and I felt I was treated inhumanely.

“The system is ridiculously archaic. There needs to be a system where you can vote by proxy in circumstances like this.

“I wasn’t the only one. Paul Flynn (MP for Newport West) was not well and was in a wheelchair to my left and to my right, Laura Pidcock (MP for North West Durham), who is heavily pregnant, was in pain because her baby was pressing on her sciatic nerve.”

She added: “The vote in support of Dominic Grieve’s amendment was massively important and I was asked by Labour Whips if I would go down. Sadly it didn’t get through.

“As soon as the voting was over I was driven back to hospital and have been here ever since.

“I am due to see a consultant at any time to discuss further treatment which may include surgery.

On Thursday morning Valeria Vaz, MP for Walsall South, raised the treatment of the MPs in Business Questions while Batley and Spen MP Tracey Brabin read a letter signed by Labour members.