Yvette Cooper

A British Labour Party MP received a message via micro-blogging website Twitter which threatened the lives of her children and grandchildren.

British lawmakers have been given a disputed 10 per cent pay increase despite their protests over the hike, which comes a week after the government imposed a one per cent pay freeze on all other public sector workers as part of austerity measures to help eliminate UK's budget deficit.

A British Labour Party MP received a message via micro-blogging website Twitter which threatened the lives of her children and grandchildren.

British lawmakers have been given a disputed 10 per cent pay increase despite their protests over the hike, which comes a week after the government imposed a one per cent pay freeze on all other public sector workers as part of austerity measures to help eliminate UK's budget deficit.