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Cops check MP mail as trolls toll rockets Tragic Jo: Politicians to get conduct code Johnson plans to collapse his government if EU refuses new deal
MPs have given police permission to monitor their emails and social media posts for death threats.
Around three-quarters of MPs field daily abuse and police are trying to identify trolls stalking them.
brexiteer Tory Andrew bridgen said: “The only way to deal with trolls is to take them on. If they are going to kill you, they will. There are a lot of nutjobs around.”
He recently had an email THE Jo Cox Foundation has called on all parties to agree to a code of conduct to help protect MPs after the storm over boris Johnson’s language in the Commons.
There was uproar as the PM suggested the best way to honour murdered “Remainer” MP Jo Cox, pictured, was to “get brexit done”.
The foundation set up in her memory said it had been working with the Committee on Standards in Public Life (CSPL) to develop a Joint Standard of saying: “You are an entirely rotten racist shower of s**** and will be executed on the electrical chair. Your. Time. Is. Up. With you dumb as f*** failure being gone, the average IQ of brits will skyrocket.”
Mr bridgen replied: “I doubt it. My IQ is 158.”
There was fury in the Commons when boris Johnson dismissed threats MPs face as “humbug”.
He later had to do a media round saying he deplored MPs being abused. Conduct to help protect election candidates. It will set out minimum standards of behaviour expected from all political party members. The Jo Cox Foundation said intimidation was a “cross-party issue”. Chief executive Catherine
Anderson added: “We all value vigorous political debate and freedom of speech but that should not extend to abusive behaviour designed to intimidate and silence people. It threatens our democracy itself.” VETERAN Labour MP Margaret Hodge is facing deselection under the party’s controversial new rules.
In a confidence vote the Jeremy Corbyn critic won six of the 11 branches in her London seat of barking.
but under Labour rules it only takes a third of branches to vote against the sitting MP to trigger a selection challenge.
Dame Margaret, 75, has been an MP for 25 years and held five ministerial posts under Gordon brown and Tony blair.
She was a ferocious chair of Parliament’s spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, for five years until standing down in 2015.
but she fell foul of the
Labour leadership by criticising Mr Corbyn for his failure to get a grip of anti-Semitism within the party.
And last month she said: “I’m not going to give up until Jeremy Corbyn ceases to be leader of the Labour Party.”
Ms Hodge tweeted: “At a vital time for the country we should be focusing our efforts on holding the Tories to account. I will work to secure the full backing of barking Labour Party, so I can continue to play my part as their MP.” BORIS Johnson is drawing up plans to collapse his government in a last ditch bid to force a General Election.
The PM will demand that the entire Cabinet resigns with him on Friday, October 18 if the EU will not give him a Brexit deal.
Mr Johnson is gambling on Jeremy Corbyn being unable to form a temporary government within the 14 days required by law.
That means Britain would have to trudge to the polls in the depths of December.
And although Mr Johnson, whose party conference kicks off in Manchester today, would quit as PM he would stay Tory leader so he could fight the election. But as the chaos would cover October 31, when Britain is due to leave the EU, MPs including Tory Dominic Grieve and Labour’s Hilary Benn are determined to get a three-month extension to stop us crashing out with no deal. If Mr Johnson has resigned as PM he will not have to write the letter asking for delay required by law. And that means Commons Speaker John Bercow would do it instead, postponing Brexit until January 31 . A Westminster source said: “We say the Speaker S is constitutionally entitled to do this with Parliament’s support.”
The crunch comes when Mr Johnson faces the EU Council at a two day summit on October 17 and 18.
MPs have ordered him to either come up with a deal or ask for an extension. Mr
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LORD BOB KERSLAKE FORMER CIVIL SERVICE HEAD