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Tory MP who gave middle finger to Boris Johnson protesters says she was ‘standing up for herself’

The Conservative minister who flicked a middle finger at protestors in London has defended her actions saying “she had reached the end of her tether”.

Education minister Andrea Jenkyns made the obscene gesture to crowds outside Downing Street on Thursday.

In a defiant statement released on Saturday, she said had simply “stood up for herself”.

It said: “A baying mob outside the gates were insulting MPs on their way in as is sadly all too common.

“After receiving a huge amount of abuse from some of the people who were there over the years, and I have also had seven death threats in the last four years. Two of which have been in recent weeks and are currently being investigated by the police, I had reached the end of my tether.

“I responded and stood up for myself.”

She was an MP when she made the gesture on Thursday but, as a long-term Johnson loyalist, has since been promoted to the cabinet.

Xural.com

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