A Conservative MP has said she will contact the police to discuss keeping her team safe at the Durham Miners' Gala after hearing "threatening tones".
Two of Sunderland's newly re-elected Labour MPs said the party must change with the third admitting Jeremy Corbyn was a factor on the doorstep.
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