UKIP candidate's Jess Phillips rape 'joke' to be investigated
The MP for Birmingham Yardley told Victoria Derbyshire she did not fear for her physical safety, but worried for her mental health after thousands of messages from Twitter users attacking her in the last year alone.
"It was one thing when he was just some idiot off the internet with a load of bros following him," she said. Mr Benjamin made the initial comments in reply to a tweet from her about rape and death threats sent to women online. His tweet, which said,"I wouldn't even rape you... feminism is cancer," has since been deleted.
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