She said abusers had targeted her appearance following a TV interview

The 51-year-old said detectives warned her it was unsafe to go outside

Gina Miller, the millionaire businesswoman who brought the legal challenge over Brexit, has said police have told her to avoid public places.

The 51-year-old, who lives in a £7million Chelsea townhouse, said detectives warned her it was unsafe to go outside.

She said abusers had targeted her children following an appearance with Nigel Farage on The Andrew Marr Show last Sunday. Mrs Miller then complained to police who told her to take 'extraordinary' security measures.

Gina Miller said abusers had targeted her children following an appearance with Nigel Farage on The Andrew Marr Show last Sunday (pictured)

Mrs Miller spoke about the police advice during an interview with the Guardian at a lavish private members' club in Mayfair. When the journalist asked if they could move to another location as photography was banned at the club, Mrs Miller refused, saying: 'It isn't safe for me to go outside.'

Mrs Miller, a former model, had received death threats since dragging the Government to court over its attempt to enact Brexit on the strength of the poll result alone without consulting Parliament.

Gina Miller outside the High Court

She said she did not take the threats seriously at first because 'they're kind of normal nowadays'.

But discussing the abuse aimed at her family following her TV appearance, she added: 'It felt surreal. I thought: I did a court case about preserving the rule of law and the British constitution, and now on a Sunday afternoon I'm walking into a police station.'

The police told her to send her husband and children home 'because I'd be there for hours. They're taking it very seriously'.

Mrs Miller is now running her business from a VIP club, telling the Guardian: 'We knew it would be bad. But nothing like this, obviously. It's bullying of the worst degree, and I'm not going to let them win. This is not the society we have to live in. If anything, all this has proved, more than anything, is that I have to do this.'