Reform UK councillor shared Facebook post saying Labour MP ‘should be shot’

Natalie Fleet said ‘posts like this are so common I don’t bat an eyelid’, but that her first thought was for the loved ones who had to see them. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian

A Labour MP has said politicians should not expect to face “death threats as standard” after a Reform UK councillor shared a Facebook post which said she “should be shot”.

The picture of Natalie Fleet, who has spoken previously about being groomed and raped as a teenager, was accompanied by a fake quote misattributed to her, which read: “I voted against the grooming gang enquiry.”