MP Yvette Cooper responds to jail term handed to Tory who threatened to have her beaten up

The Normaton, Pontefract and Castleford representative spoke out after Joshua Spencer from Knottingley was jailed today for nine weeks.The 25-year-old sent a message to a friend calling the MP a "whore" and said he was going to pay a drug addict £100 to attack her.

Ms Cooper said: "There has been something very sad as well as very grim about dealing with this.