Angela Rayner experienced "great concern" and her family and staff suffered "great stress and anxiety" due to abusive voicemails containing death threats, including to her son, sent to her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency office on September 5, 2025. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that Elizabeth Harker, 63, of Luton, admitted sending four such voicemails, pleading guilty to sending a communication of a "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character." Rayner, who resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary on the same day the calls were made, stated in a victim impact statement that she found the behaviour "unacceptable" and felt "distressed and alarmed," though she had not listened to the recordings herself. Harker, who also admitted to an unrelated abusive message sent to a woman in Luton, was released on conditional bail pending sentencing on March 24, with an order to undergo an alcohol treatment assessment.