<p class="title">A 64-year-old Londoner was jailed for 18 weeks on Friday for phoning in death threats against members of parliament he thought were trying to delay Brexit, prosecutors said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Robert Vidler denied the charges, explaining to the police that he sometimes lent his phone to friends when he was drunk, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Vidler was found guilty of causing harm to parliamentary staff who listened to the voicemail messages he left for both ruling Conservative and opposition Labour MPs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All six MPs targeted have expressed alarm at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's threat to take Britain out of the EU in October, even if this means leaving without a negotiated agreement with Brussels.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer "was called 'a traitor' and Vidler threatened to kill the MP," the CPS statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Conservative moderate Nicky Morgan was told her days "were numbered," the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brexit has inflamed passions across Britain since the country voted to leave the EU by a narrow margin in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The process has been delayed twice already because parliament refuses to approve the withdrawal terms the sides agreed last year.</p>
<p class="title">A 64-year-old Londoner was jailed for 18 weeks on Friday for phoning in death threats against members of parliament he thought were trying to delay Brexit, prosecutors said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Robert Vidler denied the charges, explaining to the police that he sometimes lent his phone to friends when he was drunk, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Vidler was found guilty of causing harm to parliamentary staff who listened to the voicemail messages he left for both ruling Conservative and opposition Labour MPs.</p>.<p class="bodytext">All six MPs targeted have expressed alarm at Prime Minister Boris Johnson's threat to take Britain out of the EU in October, even if this means leaving without a negotiated agreement with Brussels.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Labour's Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer "was called 'a traitor' and Vidler threatened to kill the MP," the CPS statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Conservative moderate Nicky Morgan was told her days "were numbered," the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Brexit has inflamed passions across Britain since the country voted to leave the EU by a narrow margin in 2016.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The process has been delayed twice already because parliament refuses to approve the withdrawal terms the sides agreed last year.</p>