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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Tristan Kirk

Trans woman guilty of harassing government minister Ellie Reeves with threats and bid to summons her to court

The Speaker of the House of Commons made an extraordinary intervention to prevent Labour minister Ellie Reeves having to face across a courtroom a trans woman who was harassing her, it has been revealed.

Ms Reeves, the MP for Lewisham West and East Dulwich and current Solicitor General, faced a “barrage” of threats, abuse, and baseless accusations of criminal conduct from one of her constituents, Tracey Smith.

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