Brexit rebels reveal dossier of death threats including calls for them to be ‘hanged for treason’ and ‘heads put on a spike’
TORY rebels who defied the Government over Brexit last week have revealed a string of death threats against them.
Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry submitted a dossier of abuse and disgusting threats to the police and Commons Speaker - including calls for her to be hanged for treason.
And fellow rebel Antoinette Sandbach said she had been targeted with "death threats and abuse" on a regular basis.
The two women were part of a group of eleven Tory MPs who forced the Government to give them a vote on the final Brexit deal last week.
Dominic Grieve, who led the group to inflict a damaging defeat on Theresa May, has also reported death threats to police.
In other abusive comments over the weekend, vile trolls told a Tory MP's wife "hope your baby dies" and another vowed to put one's "head on a spike".
Ms Soubry said she was sent messages about "making explosives" and another suggested "hanging them along the Embankment".
Some called the MPs "scum" and said their "heads belong on spikes outside" - and another wished her to "burn in hell for eternity".
She said the abusers were "ideologically driven extremists controlling British politics" and that party leaders must condemn them.
Ms Soubry told the "The internet provides the means for these extremists to peddle their hatred and paranoia."
Last night the Home Secretary Amber Rudd paid tribute to her in the Commons for standing up to "fight her case" and urged critics to think "very carefully" as not to incite more abuse against MPs.
Another MP said: "The frenzy unhinges everyone a bit, but completely unhinges the already very unhinged. And that is how you get violent acts as we saw with Jo Cox’s murder.”
Labour's Stephen Doughty added: "I too have had the threats. I’ve had a fake bomb sent to my office, the homophobia, the threats of hanging, a threat this week that all traitors should be shot."
Speaker John Bercow told MPs yesterday that such extreme threats were a "type of fascism".
He said: "As members of parliament, you are never traitors, you are never mutineers, never malcontents, never enemies of the people."
And yesterday Theresa May vowed that there must "never be a place for the threats of violence and intimidation" in politics.
"We must be better than that," she added.
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This morning Ms Sandbach stood resolute, and was determined "not to be intimidated by threats into changing my views".
But she admitted that she was forced to step up her security over fears of another violent incident like the tragic murder of her colleague Jo Cox last year.
"I want to represent my constituents in a way that is fearless... [but] of course my behaviour has changed."