A man has been arrested after a British member of Parliament (MP) received a death threat on Saturday, one day after Conservative MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death. Chris Bryant, Labour Party MP for Rhondda, said he called the police as the “first message in [his] inbox was this death threat” after he was back from Qatar on Saturday. South Wales Police said a 76-year-old man from Pontycymer, Bridgend County, had been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications. A spokeswoman said the police were called around 4:30 p.m on Saturday following reports of malicious communications being sent to a 59-year-old man from Porth. Bryant said MPs had been subjected to a “steady stream of horrific abuse” in recent years, and that the level of vitriol was higher than he had known it in 20 years in Parliament. “Some of the political debates have been really vicious and sharp,” the Welsh …
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