Anti-Semitic banners showing British Prime Minister Theresa May wearing a Star of David which were unveiled by Labour party supporters in Bristol one day before the election have been removed by activists following a series of complaints.

The banners were displayed ahead of Thursday general election which saw May’s Conservative party losing its parliamentary majority.

One of the organisers who put up the banner said it was ''unintentional.'' “It’s not meant to be that at all. It’s a tiny element of the whole banner,” said Nima Masterson.

“What we are doing with that symbol – it’s an earring – is a reference to Theresa May’s Government’s relationship with Israel,’’ she said.

“This is about foreign policy,” she added.

The Labour party, under its leader Jeremy Corbyn, has been plagued by claims of anti-Semitism for months.

A review he did into abuse in the party was widely claimed to be a white-wash and Corbyn gave the author a peerage just a short while later.

The main anti-Semitic incident in Labour so far this year was the decision to suspend former London mayor Ken Livingstone for an additional year rather than to expel him. Livingstone repeatedly stated that Hitler supported Zionism. He maintained this position after his suspension, which may or may not lead to further measures by the party against him.

Corbyn himself repeatedly refused to apologise for calling the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah "friends" and for his embrance of another terror group, Hamas.