Death threat letter sent to office of Tory leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt

Penny Mordaunt has received a death threat letter at her constituency office (Victoria Jones/PA Wire)

Police are investigating after a letter was delivered to the former Tory leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt threatening to “shoot her in the head”.

The death threat was sent to the constituency office of the Portsmouth North MP before she was voted out of the contest to be leader of the Conservative Party.