Tory MP Alicia Kearns has panic button in every room of her house

Tory MP Alicia Kearns reveals she has panic button in every room of her house over fears ‘hostile states’ such as China may want to ‘hurt’ her

• Alicia Kearns, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, made the revelation 
• She said she had received death threats and threats towards her young children 

A senior Tory MP has revealed she has panic buttons installed in every room of her home due to fears countries such as China want to ‘hurt’ her. 

Alicia Kearns, chairman of the foreign affairs committee, claims she was advised to install them after receiving death threats herself and threats towards her children – both under four years of age.

In an interview with GB News set to be broadcast today, Ms Kearns will reinforce her position that China, which she describes as a ‘hostile state’, poses a ‘threat’ to the UK.

‘The reality is that we are under attack from authoritarian states every single day,’ she claimed.

Ms Kearns was elected chairman of the committee in October and has opened up about the protection measures MPs are forced to undertake.

Alicia Kearns (pictured), chairman of the foreign affairs committee, claims she was advised to install them after receiving death threats herself and threats towards her children – both under four years of age

Ms Kearns was elected chairman of the committee in October and has opened up about the protection measures MPs are forced to undertake

‘There are MPs whose children are taken to school by the police every morning,’ she said.

‘There are colleagues who are told that they need police protection at all times in their own constituencies, who have stalkers, who have people outside their offices in balaclavas.’

She said that she was given advice by security experts to install panic buttons for the safety of her family.

Ms Kearns, the MP for Rutland and Melton, claims Covid was ‘the authoritarian regime’s dream’ as people had to download traceable apps on their phones.

Discussing the supposed ‘threat’ China poses to the UK, she said: ‘Exfiltrating our data is their priority alongside techno authoritarianism, which is essentially the insertion of technologies into our lives where we become dependent and reliant on them.

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‘Because the more dependent we are as a country on China, the more castrated we are on the world stage. 

‘You cannot stand up to China if you are reliant on them for technologies, if they have your data, and if they’ve weaponised resources around the world. And so TikTok is a good example.’

During the interview, Ms Kearns, who was involved in a successful bid for TikTok to be banned from government phones, discussed last year’s ‘Pork Pie Plot’. 

The ‘Pork Pie Plot’ was an attempted Conservative MP coup to unseat Boris Johnson.

Ms Kearns admitted to being involve in discussion between Tory MPs about whether the former Prime Minister had ‘let down the people of this country’.

However the only people to be briefed out to the media regarding the coup were herself and Dehenna Davison – the only two women in the room.

However the only people to be briefed out to the media regarding the coup were herself and Dehenna Davison (pictured with Boris Johnson) – the only two women in the room

Ms Kearns blasted this, saying that ‘without question’ the treatment was sexist. 

‘They briefed out about her love life, which was shameful, and they briefed out against me, the Whips’ office, that I was a bad mother because I’d taken my daughter with me to Ukraine,’ she added.

‘It was perfectly safe to take my daughter to Ukraine at that time. But the fact that they did that and that was the best they could find on me. 

‘I think there’s some serious questions to be asked there about who made those decisions and why they thought that was at all appropriate.’

On the TikTok ban, Ms Kearns said users should get rid of the app as she suggested the video-sharing platform is linked to China’s efforts to build a ‘tech totalitarian state’.

There have long been concerns around TikTok over its links to China because its parent company, ByteDance, was founded in the country, and critics have raised fears data could be passed to the Chinese state.

In December, TikTok executive Liz Kanter insisted the platform has not been asked for UK user data by the Chinese government and would not provide it if it was.

‘The fact is, now this isn’t just me saying ‘I’m worried, delete it’, we have evidence that TikTok has been used to track down sources for journalists,’ she added.

‘Everyone should be concerned about that.’

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