Labour MP reveals she’s received death threats and calls them a ‘norm’

Labour MP says she's received death threats and calls them a 'norm'Politics Midlands, BBC

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00:00 I've had direct death threats. It seems like it's become a norm. I mean, I think when you're a woman,

00:05 especially in Parliament, the level of misogyny and hate and the fact that people can actually

00:10 sit down and write a direct threat to you without feeling that there is going to be no consequences

00:15 has really become part of the work that we do. We see debates that are very sensitive becoming

00:19 weaponised and it really shouldn't be like that. And I think, you know, what the Speaker did,

00:24 he's got to take responsibility for the whole of the House and he's got to look at the risk

00:28 factors and what he was trying to do.