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Labour MP Luciana Berger has called in police after receiving sickening antisemitic death threats including one allegedly stating: "You are going to get it like Jo Cox did."

The vile threats - which were sent online along with a photograph of a large kitchen knife - are also said to have made reference to the Liverpool Wavetree MP's religious faith with one message warning her: "You better watch your back Jewish scum."

Police have arrested a man who allegedly sent the email threats on Monday.

Ms Berger, Jeremy Corbyn's former shadow minister for mental health, contacted police after allegedly receiving the malicious communication shortly after finishing her regular Friday afternoon MP's surgery last week.

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The 35-year-old MP, currently standing for the new Liverpool Metro Mayor post, told the Daily Mirror today: "My gratitude goes to Merseyside Police for their swift action.

"Behaviour like this seeks to threaten our democracy. Intimidation of any kind should never be tolerated."

Ms Berger has been sent thousands of antisemitic insults and threats online since becoming an MP.

Neo-Nazi Garron Helm, 21, of Litherland, Merseyside, was jailed for four weeks in October 2014 after sending antisemitic messages using the hashtag ‘Hitlerwasright’. Some 2,500 further vile copycat messages followed in just a few days.

Last month Joshua Bonehill-Paine was charged with allegedly using social media to harass the Shadow Minister for Mental Health between October 2014 and January 2015.

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Mr Bonehill-Paine, from Yeovil, Somerset ,is alleged to have posted a series of articles online that amounted to harassment of the MP and were of a racially or religiously aggravated nature.

Ms Berger was elected was Britain's youngest Jewish MP in 2010.

Colleagues across Parliament have spoken out about the abuse she has regularly faced.

Baroness Royall, Labour’s leader in the Lords, once tweeted: “Luciana Berger is a terrific MP, friend and colleague – a very fine woman. The racist abuse against her must stop. It’s abhorrent.”

Earlier this week the constituency office of the Labour MP Angela Eagle was vandalised following the launch of her campaign to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the party.

Merseyside police said they attended Eagle’s constituency office in the Liscard area of Wallasey, Merseyside, on Tuesday and were investigating a report of criminal damage.

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A spokesperson for Eagle said a brick had been thrown through the window of the office either overnight Monday or on Tuesday morning.

In a statement, Corbyn said the incident was “extremely concerning” and that he had also been subjected to threats.

Mother of two Jo Cox died on 16 June after she was attacked outside a constituency surgery in Birstall, west Yorkshire.

Her killing provoked a wave of shock across the UK and around the world.

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She will be buried at a small and private funeral on Friday.

A Northumbria Police spokesman said today: "Northumbria Police is working closely with Merseyside Police after reports of malicious communication to a Merseyside MP."

A 28-year-old man of South Shields has been charged with send letter/communication causing anxiety/distress.

He was due to appear at South Tyneside Magistrates' Court this morning, the spokesman added.