Labour MP Yvette Cooper has said she has alerted police after receiving a death threat against her children and grandchildren.
The Remain campaigner, who is married to former Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls, received the sinister tweet on Tuesday from an account that accused her of sending pro-EU "propaganda" by email.
It said: "Hello, Yvette I have received your Stronger In propaganda emails 5 times please stop or I will kill your kids and grandkids."
Reposting the threatening tweet to her followers, the MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford said: "Got this today for speaking out for Remain..... This has to stop."
She said both the police and Twitter were looking into the matter, adding: "But this is for all of us. Time to stop the hatred."
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