MP says she's received 'death threats' after 'misleading' video put out by neighbouring MP

An MP says she has received "threats of decease and violence" implicit a video posted by a neighbouring MP, which she labelled "misleading" and "irresponsible".

Anna Dixon has accused her constituency neighbour of having "personally inflamed hatred against me" successful a video helium posted connected Facebook, regarding her presumption connected calls for section and nationalist inquiries into grooming gangs.

The Labour MP for Shipley, who was archetypal elected past year, said Robbie Moore, a Conservative, had demonstrated "irresponsible behaviour" by posting "blatant misinformation astir a colleague".

In a lengthy connection connected societal media, Ms Dixon wrote: "I privation section residents to beryllium alert that I person received threats of decease and unit straight posted successful effect to a misleading video precocious shared by the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, Robbie Moore.

"These person been reported to the police, and an probe is presently underway.

"Other responses to his station person subjected maine to misogynistic maltreatment and made profoundly violative claims against maine - helium has chosen to fto these stay nationalist successful the comments conception connected his societal media."

What does the video say?

Mr Moore archetypal posted the video connected societal media connected Wednesday, 20 August.

Above the video, helium wrote: "Wow. Shipley's Labour MP Anna Dixon is 'misleading public' [sic] connected grooming gangs inquiry.

"Anna is telling constituents she voted against an enquiry due to the fact that it was a 'political stunt'. But a person look astatine the facts shows Anna has been dismissing calls for an enquiry since time one... Your dependable - oregon conscionable different dependable protecting Bradford's Labour Party?"

The movie is simply a small nether 2 minutes agelong and examines Ms Dixon's presumption successful the benignant of a quality video, with a voice-over referring to "our investigation" and starts by announcing that she "isn't telling you the truth". It besides uses clips from a BBC Politics North episode, which Ms Dixon appeared on, arsenic good arsenic extracts from an email.

The video claims that Ms Dixon has been misleading the nationalist astir her reasons for voting against plans for a nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs, and alleges that she has ever been opposed to 1 from erstwhile she was archetypal elected.

Responding to the video connected Saturday, Ms Dixon wrote: "In putting retired misleading accusation online successful narration to my presumption connected kid grooming gangs helium has personally inflamed hatred against me, and successful responding to constituents helium has doubled down and repeated the attacks against me.

"We indispensable ever enactment victims and survivors archetypal erstwhile it comes to tackling the horrific transgression of kid intersexual exploitation - this contented should ne'er beryllium utilized to marque idiosyncratic attacks based connected enactment politics."

The Labour backbencher added: "Group-based kid intersexual exploitation, committed by grooming gangs, is 1 of the astir despicable and damaging crimes imaginable. I afloat enactment each efforts by [the] authorities and West Yorkshire Police to bring perpetrators of these crimes to justice."

She referenced however she has sought to tackle the contented by speaking astir it successful the Commons and gathering with survivors.

Ms Dixon added that she has "always been transparent and nonstop with constituents", and that she was "shocked by the assertion made successful the video" that she would reason a absorption connected the Bradford territory successful immoderate nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs.

She stated that the Tory MP's video selectively quotes an email she wrote, leaving retired the sentence: "If the nationalist enquiry deems that different section enquiry is needed successful Bradford, this is thing I and the Local Authority volition afloat support."

What is the statement fundamentally about?

It appears the root of the statement is Ms Dixon's determination successful January 2025 to ballot against an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill.

The Conservatives scheduled what Ms Dixon has called a "wrecking amendment" to the bill, which called for a nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs. But voting for this amendment would person "effectively killed the bill, which aimed to heighten safeguards for children", Ms Dixon said.

Mr Moore, who is the shadiness situation secretary, has said this is not the existent crushed that Ms Dixon voted against the amendment, and claims that instead, she is opposed to a nationalist enquiry altogether.

Sir Keir Starmer announced successful June that determination would beryllium a nationalist enquiry into grooming gangs, aft spending respective months resisting calls to bash so.

Ms Dixon has said she believes Mr Moore has disrespected her and fallen beneath the standards expected of MPs.

She said: "It is 1 happening to prosecute successful lively statement connected enactment policies successful parliament oregon connected TV, but to motorboat specified a idiosyncratic onslaught against a neighbouring MP falls good beneath the standards expected of parliamentarians.

"I americium disturbed by Robbie Moore’s seeming willingness to dispersed misinformation connected this standard with his constituents and beyond, peculiarly erstwhile it pertains to specified a superior issue."

She has called connected some her ain constituents and Mr Moore's to condemn "these actions successful the strongest imaginable terms".

The video is 'not a idiosyncratic attack' but highlights 'legitimate concerns'

Mr Moore has told Sky News that helium "utterly condemns immoderate threats of violence" and has antecedently had equipped constabulary travel to his location successful the mediate of the nighttime owed to a decease threat.

He said his video is "not a idiosyncratic attack", but "raises morganatic concerns" astir her nationalist presumption connected a grooming enquiry successful Bradford. He added: "I person been warring for an enquiry since being elected successful 2019 and person been wide that this is not a governmental issue."

The shadiness curate continued: "We are present successful a concern successful Bradford wherever victims and survivors and starring kid maltreatment lawyers are desperately calling for a absorption connected Bradford successful the grooming gangs inquiry, with a sitting Labour adjacent explicitly saying determination has been a cover-up wrong Bradford Council.

"The information that the MP for Shipley does not and, from her nationalist comments today, inactive does not unequivocally enactment a absorption connected Bradford successful this nationalist enquiry is some a newsworthy and morganatic concern."