A man has been charged with malicious communications after Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner received threats and abuse.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said 36-year-old Benjamin Iliffe, from Cambridgeshire, will appear at Huntingdon Magistrates’ Court later on Thursday to face the charge.
Iliffe, of Slade Way, Chatteris, has also been charged with possessing cannabis.
It comes as police said they made a third arrest over the phone calls, emails and letters that have been sent to Ms Rayner in recent weeks.
According to GMP, a 70-year-old man was arrested in conjunction with South Yorkshire Police on suspicion of malicious communication and is still in custody.
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He was held over emails received on 16 October.
On Wednesday, a 52-year-old was arrested in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and bailed over abusive phone calls Ms Rayner received a day earlier.
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“Enquiries remain ongoing and GMP continues to work in partnership with Cambridgeshire Constabulary and South Yorkshire Police,” a police statement said.
Ms Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, reported getting the threatening communications over a number of weeks.
A spokesman for Ms Rayner said after the first arrest was made: “Abuse and threats of this nature don’t just have an impact on Angela but also on her family, her children and her staff who are on the receiving end of these communications.”
The arrests come at a time of heightened focus on MPs’ security and the abuse they receive in the wake of the killing of Sir David Amess.
The Conservative MP for Southend West was fatally stabbed in a suspected terror attack as he held a constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex earlier this month.
When TV cameras are let in to film world leaders meeting in person, the resulting footage is usually incredibly boring for journalists and incredibly safe for politicians.
Put through a total of almost 90 minutes of televised questioning alongside the American leader, it was his diciest encounter with the president yet.
But he still just about emerged intact.
For a start, he can claim substantive policy wins after Trump announced extra pressure on Vladimir Putin to negotiate a ceasefire and dialled up the concern over the devastating scenes coming from Gaza.
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There were awkward moments aplenty though.
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On green energy, immigration, taxation and online regulation, the differences were clear to see.
Sir Keir just about managed to paper over the cracks by chuckling at times, choosing his interventions carefully and always attempting to sound eminently reasonable.
At times, it had the energy of a man being forced to grin and bear inappropriate comments from his in-laws at an important family dinner.
But hey, it stopped a full Trump implosion – so I suppose that’s a win.
My main takeaway from this Scotland visit though is not so much the political gulf present between the two men, but the gulf in power.
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Sir Keir flew the length of the country he leads to be the guest at the visiting president’s resort.
He was then forced to sit through more than an hour of uncontrolled, freewheeling questioning from a man most of his party and voters despise, during which he was offered unsolicited advice on how to beat Nigel Farage and criticised (albeit indirectly) on key planks of his government’s policy platform.
In return he got warm words about him (and his wife) and relatively incremental announcements on two foreign policy priorities.
So why does he do it?
Because, to borrow a quote from a popular American political TV series: “Air Force One is a big plane and it makes a hell of a noise when it lands on your head.”
With Amazon and Walmart exploring stablecoins, institutions may be underestimating potential exposure of customer data on blockchains, posing risks to privacy and brand trust.
The European Central Bank may rely on regulated euro stablecoins and private innovation to counter the dominance of US dollar stablecoins, says adviser Jürgen Schaaf.