Jack Bennett, 39, has been charged with three counts of malicious communications, Devon and Cornwall Police mentioned.
The messages had been despatched between April 2024 and January 2025 involving three victims, together with the Birmingham Yardley MP.
It’s understood the accused, from Seaton, east Devon, was charged over the weekend.
He has been bailed to seem earlier than Exeter Magistrates’ Court docket on 18 February 2025.
Earlier on Monday, Sir Keir Starmer spoke a few “line being crossed” concerning feedback in the direction of Ms Phillips and mentioned that she had been receiving threats.
As minister for safeguarding and violence towards girls and ladies, Ms Phillips’ transient includes tackling home abuse, rape, and youngster sexual abuse and exploitation.
She was appointed to the ministerial place in July after Labour’s normal election win.
Ms Phillips has been a vocal campaigner on violence towards girls. She has turn into identified for studying out an inventory of all the ladies killed by males within the UK yearly on Worldwide Ladies’s Day in parliament.
She beforehand held the position of shadow home violence and safeguarding minister from 2020 to 2023 underneath Sir Keir Starmer, however resigned from the frontbench over the get together’s stance on the Center East battle.
