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// A senior Labour MP has called on Conservative whips to identify party colleagues who use “vile and dehumanising language” towards Theresa May, after a weekend during which there were rhetorical references to the prime minister being knifed and hanged.
The comments from Yvette Cooper came as Downing Street also said there should be no place for “dehumanising or derogatory” language in politics.
The Sunday Times quoted one unnamed Tory MP as saying: “The moment is coming when the knife gets heated, stuck in her front and twisted. She’ll be dead soon.” Another said May was now entering “the killing zone”, and a third remarked: “Assassination is in the air.”
“Nobody should be subject to that kind of violent language, which I think is normalising violence in public debate at a time when we lost Jo Cox, we have had threats against Rosie Cooper, we have had other violent death threats against women MPs.”
She added: “It’s about time we know who that Conservative MP is who is making these threats because maybe if they use that language they will stop doing so if they are being called out publicly from using that kind o