An MP says she has obtained “threats of death and violence” over a video posted by a neighbouring MP, which she labelled “misleading” and “irresponsible”.
Anna Dixon has accused her constituency neighbour of getting “personally inflamed hatred against me” in a video he posted on Fb, relating to her place on requires native and nationwide inquiries into grooming gangs.
The Labour MP for Shipley, who was first elected final yr, stated Robbie Moore, a Conservative, had demonstrated “irresponsible behaviour” by posting “blatant misinformation about a colleague”.
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Robbie Moore has defended his video. Pic: UK Parliament
In a prolonged message on social media, Ms Dixon wrote: “I want local residents to be aware that I have received threats of death and violence directly posted in response to a misleading video recently shared by the MP for Keighley and Ilkley, Robbie Moore.
“These have been reported to the police, and an investigation is presently underway.
“Other responses to his post have subjected me to misogynistic abuse and made deeply offensive claims against me – he has chosen to let these remain public in the comments section on his social media.”
What does the video say?
Mr Moore first posted the video on social media on Wednesday, 20 August.
Above the video, he wrote: “Wow. Shipley’s Labour MP Anna Dixon is ‘deceptive public’ [sic] on grooming gangs inquiry.
“Anna is telling constituents she voted against an inquiry because it was a ‘political stunt’. But a closer look at the facts shows Anna has been dismissing calls for an inquiry since day one… Your voice – or just another voice protecting Bradford’s Labour Party?”
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The video claims that Ms Dixon has been deceptive the general public about her causes for voting towards plans for a nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs, and alleges that she has at all times been opposed to 1 from when she was first elected.
Responding to the video on Saturday, Ms Dixon wrote: “In placing out deceptive info on-line in relationship to my place on youngster grooming gangs he has personally infected hatred towards me, and in responding to constituents he has doubled down and repeated the assaults towards me.
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“We must always put victims and survivors first when it comes to tackling the horrific crime of child sexual exploitation – this issue should never be used to make personal attacks based on party politics.”
The Labour backbencher added: “Group-based child sexual exploitation, committed by grooming gangs, is one of the most despicable and damaging crimes imaginable. I fully support all efforts by [the] government and West Yorkshire Police to bring perpetrators of these crimes to justice.”
She referenced how she has sought to sort out the difficulty by talking about it within the Commons and assembly with survivors.
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Ms Dixon added that she has “always been transparent and direct with constituents”, and that she was “shocked by the claim made in the video” that she would oppose a give attention to the Bradford district in any nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs.
What’s the argument basically about?
It seems the origin of the argument is Ms Dixon’s determination in January 2025 to vote towards an modification to the Youngsters’s Wellbeing and Colleges Invoice.
The Conservatives scheduled what Ms Dixon has known as a “wrecking amendment” to the invoice, which known as for a nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs. However voting for this modification would have “effectively killed the bill, which aimed to enhance safeguards for children”, Ms Dixon stated.
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Mr Moore, who’s the shadow farming secretary, has stated this isn’t the actual cause that Ms Dixon voted towards the modification, and claims that as an alternative, she is against a nationwide inquiry altogether.
Sir Keir Starmer introduced in June that there could be a nationwide inquiry into grooming gangs, after spending a number of months resisting calls to take action.
Ms Dixon has stated she believes Mr Moore has disrespected her and fallen under the requirements anticipated of MPs.
She stated: “It is one thing to engage in lively debate on party policies in parliament or on TV, but to launch such a personal attack against a neighbouring MP falls well below the standards expected of parliamentarians.
“I’m disturbed by Robbie Moore’s seeming willingness to unfold misinformation on this scale along with his constituents and past, significantly when it pertains to such a severe challenge.”
She has called on both her own constituents and Mr Moore’s to condemn “these actions within the strongest doable phrases”.
The video is ‘not a personal attack’ but highlights ‘legitimate concerns’
He said his video is “not a private assault”, but “raises respectable issues” about her public position on a grooming inquiry in Bradford. He added: “I’ve been preventing for an inquiry since being elected in 2019 and have been clear that this isn’t a political challenge.”
The shadow minister continued: “We at the moment are in a state of affairs in Bradford the place victims and survivors and main youngster abuse attorneys are desperately calling for a give attention to Bradford within the grooming gangs inquiry, with a sitting Labour peer explicitly saying there was a cover-up inside Bradford Council.
