On Monday, Raab was asked on ITV’s Good Morning Britain about the possibility of MPs wearing stab-proof vests. Dominic Raab has revealed he was "recently" threatened with an acid attack, as he outlined MPs' safety fears in the wake of Sir David Amess's murder.
The
justice secretary and deputy prime minister's comments came after Conservative
MP Sir David was stabbed to death at a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea,
Essex, on Friday.
The
69-year-old MP’s death has led to debate about security measures for MPs and a
call to ban anonymity on social media in the face of increasing online abuse.
Justice
secretary and deputy prime minister Dominic Raab said he had been threatened
with an acid attack. (ITV)
He
replied: “I’m happy to look at any practical measures, but the reality is that
people will threaten you with something else.
“The most recent threat I’ve had was someone threatening to throw acid over me.
“That was very recently.”
Raab said there had been an “intervention” in relation to the threat but didn’t elaborate.
He said: “I will not be deterred from doing my job.”
In a separate interview on Monday with BBC Breakfast, Raab said he has had three “threats to life and limb” in the past two years.
“There will be people who have worse abuse than me, and I particularly feel for the female MPs, and I know colleagues of mine who have come off, for example, Twitter because it’s just so vile,” he said.
“I have had three threats to life and limb over the last two years.”
He said those incidents “all resulted in an intervention”, but did not give further details.
Meanwhile, police said on Monday that a man has been arrested on suspicion of sending a death threat to Labour MP Chris Bryant.
“I can’t tell you much because the police have arrested this chap,” he told the PA Media news agency.
“I got off
a flight from Qatar, where oddly enough David Amess was as well – we have been
looking at what’s happening to the refugees from Afghanistan who are all
transiting through Doha.
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