THE MP for the Cotswolds has revealed the threats and abusive phone calls he has endured from enraged constituents.

The news comes as politicians of all colours pay tribute to MP Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed to death yesterday in a savage attack.

The 41-year-old mother-of-two was set upon as she walked to her constituency surgery in West Yorkshire. A 52-year-old man has been arrested but police are yet to speculate as to the motive.

She is the first sitting MP to be killed in an attack since Ian Gow was assassinated outside his East Sussex home in July 1990, and her death was greeted with disbelief, shock and finally sadness.

Cotswold MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown paid tribute to the young mother but said MPs could not close themselves away.

“First of all I’d like to say this is a tragedy, particularly for her husband and two children and I send my deepest sympathies to them. She was a very promising politician, an up-and-coming woman whose life was cut short just as she got into her prime.”

But he said MPs and other politicians could not surround themselves with security guards.

“We have to meet a lot of members of the public and a very, very small number are mentally disturbed," he said.

“When I go into Cirencester and wherever else people come up and talk to me, if we lose that rapport we lose a part of our democracy.”

MPs needed to be aware of the risk, but should not go “overboard”, he said, adding that Westminster staff could also be at risk from irate constituents.

He has also been threatened in the past, he revealed.

“We had one guy who had particular beef. He told one of my staff ‘if you don’t sort out our problem, we know where Clifton-Brown lives and we will come get him’.

“They kept on calling and I had to contact him and tell him in writing that this would have to stop or the police would be involved.”

Other Cotswold politicians have paid tribute to the Mrs Cox.

Paul Hodgkinson tweeted: “Terrible news - this has been a week full of sadness #RIPJoCox”, while Cllr Joe Harris posted a picture of the politician with the comment “RIP. Murdered serving her community.”

Labour leader Mr Corbyn said Parliament would be recalled on Monday, and labelled the attack "an act of hatred".

Mr Cameron said: "Where we see hatred, where we find division, where we see intolerance we must drive it out of our politics and out of our public life and out of our communities.”