MP won’t go home over death threat risk

An MP has revealed she is unable to go home to her constituency this weekend because of the seriousness of the death threats she is facing.

A day after the Prime Minister blamed MPS for failing to implement the result of the Brexit referendum, Anna Soubry spoke of the importance of the language used by politicians.

The former minister, who quit the Conservative Party to join The Independent Group (TIG) last month, said she was facing “very, very serious death threats, especially when people know your home address”.

Speaking outside the Cabinet Office where she and TIG spokesman Chuka Umunna held talks with David Lidington, Ms Soubry was asked about Theresa May’s choice of language. She said: “I can’t go home this weekend, I’m not able to go home this weekend. I am not safe.

“When a senior police officer tells your partner that if it was his wife in the situation that I am in he would say ‘I am frightened for her safety’, I think that tells you everything.

“I’m not alone in this. Chuka has obviously had death threats. So many of us have had that, but this is the reality of it. That’s why the language [used] … is so important.”