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Remain-backer Anna Soubry has revealed she is unable to go home to her constituency this weekend because she is facing serious death threats.

A day after the Prime Minister blamed MPs for failing to implement the result of the Brexit referendum, the former business minister spoke of the importance of the language used by politicians.

Ms Soubry, who quit the Conservative Party to join The Independent Group last month, said she was facing "very, very serious death threats, especially when people know your home address".

Speaking outside the Cabinet Office where she and TIG spokesman Chuka Umunna held talks with David Lidington, Ms Soubry was asked about Theresa May's choice of language during her speech to the public on Wednesday night.

She told reporters: "I can't go home this weekend, I'm not able to go home this weekend, I am not safe.

"When a senior police officer tells your partner that if it was his wife in the situation that I am in he would say 'I am frightened for her safety' I think that tells you everything.

"I'm not alone in this - I mean Chuka has obviously had death threats, so many of us have had that - but this is the reality of it, that's why the language that politicians and indeed everybody uses, including the media, is so important.

"We are tired of being called traitors. When people use that language the next thing that happens is that I get an email that says 'Traitors get beheaded, that's what should happen to you'."

Other MPs have also raised safety concerns after the PM's comments on Wednesday.

Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle told Sky News he was involved in an altercation on a street in his constituency.

“When I said he was an MP he then started to get rather irate, called me a traitor, saying that I was one of the ones trying to stop the will of the people,” he said.

The Brighton Kemptown MP said he told the man his constituency voted remain and his view was to continue to represent the diverse views of the people.

“That agitated him even more saying he didn’t care about the people of Kemptown,” he said.

“It was a heated discussion… then he lunged for my face, grabbed my glasses then I grabbed his hand and pulled him close to me, one so he didn’t run away with my glasses and two so he couldn’t then hit me.

“It took about three men who came over prised him away from me, got my glasses back.

“It was a moment where I definitely felt shook.”

He added that he had been up and down the same street for two years leafleting and never before had a problem.