MP Discusses Threats and Police Investigation

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. Last week I got a f- telephone call from

Nottinghamshire police to tell me that I was on a kill

list of 100 MPs and former MPs and

VIPs. Now, I think, I strongly believe

that it took a leak to the

press before the police actually contacted me and

my colleagues sat here. So can the Home Secretary tell me when

she first became aware of this list?

Well, let me say to the, uh, honorable, uh, gentleman, uh,

I, I don't believe, uh, that, as I said in answer to previous

questions, that anything has, inappropriate has happened in

relation to the list. I'm not going to give him, uh, or

the allegations of, of the list. I'm not gonna give a running commentary on

intelligence discussions, but nothing has happened, uh, that is

inappropriate in my view. Uh, I will make sure that I, um, am

able to share more information with the House, uh, uh, as I, as I referenced in my

answer to Mr. Speaker earlier and the concerns that have been raised,

uh, about

who has knowledge of, uh, who those names are.

But this is an investigation that is led by the police.

I don't get a running, uh, commentary or an update myself.

It would be inappropriate for that to happen. They

are operationally independent.

They must go where the evidence takes them, and no politician should ever have a

directive hand, uh, in those proceedings.