Veteran MP accused of stoking up hatred

A VETERAN Brexiteer MP was accused of fuelling death threats against his Remainer colleagues yesterday.

Sir Bill Cash condemned Theresa May’s decision to delay Brexit as a ‘forced and humiliating surrender’ and ‘appeasement on bended knee’.

But former Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt, who quit the Government last month over Brexit, branded Sir Bill ‘vain and bitter’ and condemned the language he used.

‘Does it ever cross your mind what you’re contributing to?,’ he tweeted.

Nicky Morgan went further, linking the kind of language he used to death threats against MPs. She said: ‘This kind of language is not helpful. It’s not the kind of language that our councillors or frankly any normal people would use.’ Asked on Radio 4’s Today programme if she was linking the language to those who ‘take it much further’, Mrs Morgan replied: ‘Yes I do.’

‘The language that either MPs or campaigners, mainly in favour of Brexit, are using are stoking up other people, often who are sitting at home watching all this stuff and it gets them really angry and fired up and they will say things they would never say face to face.’ Last night Sir Bill, pictured, said his words were ‘anything but inflammatory’. ‘They were very measured and they are supported by the evidence,’ he said. He had earlier told the Sunday Telegraph: ‘How low can we sink with the Prime Minister making us crawl on our hands and knees, not only to the EU, but to Germany and France? They say that a week is a long time in politics. It is more like an eternity as we rush into a black hole littered with the debris of mendacity and constitutional mayhem.’