Sad to see this. We need to show some respect not threats to our hard-working, impartial civil servants. Their roles will become more important post Brexit.
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UK’s Brexit officials targeted with death threats and personal slurs
But the personal stress suffered by Jon Thompson, chief executive of HM Revenue & Customs, only became fully apparent last week when he revealed he had received death threats after claiming that a post-Brexit customs plan favoured by Eurosceptic ministers would cost billions.
“We have had to literally change how I travel and what my personal security is,” Mr Thompson told the Institute for Government, a think-tank. “We have had two death threats investigated by the Metropolitan Police for speaking truth unto power about Brexit.”...
Cabinet secretary Mark Sedwill said in a letter to The Times that the unnamed people attacking Olly Robbins should be “ashamed of themselves”, adding: “This has to stop. Civil servants have always trusted that our fellow citizens, whatever their views, know that we are doing our duty to implement the decisions of the governments they elect.”
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https://www.ft.com/content/a1def03a-...2-7574db66bcd5
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The head of HM Revenue and Customs received two death threats after disclosing that a post-Brexit customs option preferred by Brexiters would cost up to £20bn, it has emerged...
Following a Daily Telegraph front-page story in December which described Tory MPs who voted against the government’s Brexit plans as “mutineers”, Anna Soubry and Dominic Grieve received dozens of threats.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-cost-estimate