Yvette Cooper alerts police after Twitter death threat against family members

Threat to 'kill your kids and grandkids' was tweeted to Labour MP following her campaigning for the remain camp

Yvette Cooper has said that she has informed police and Twitter about a tweet in which a user threatened to kill her children and grandchildren.

The Labour MP, who has been campaigning for a remain vote in this week's EU referendum, posted an image on Tuesday of the tweet, which was sent from an account which had been suspended on Tuesday night and accused her of issuing propaganda.