Numerous other women MPs have also come forward to highlight the problem.

Last year Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Kilburn, told The Sunday Times that “being a female politician, there is no way you are going to avoid abuse… I don’t know anyone who has not had to deal with it.”

Siddiq is Muslim, and said that she has personally received “horrendous abuse… ranging from, ‘Why aren’t you wearing a hijab?’ to ‘If I could I would kill you’.”

She also discussed how she had formed an informal support group with other female politicians to help them handle the level of abuse they receive on a daily basis.

“We meet online and in the tea rooms,” she said. “We support each other as MPs and as women. Online abuse can be really frightening and upsetting for some women.”

Other MPs who have spoken out include Jess Phillips, who slammed Twitter as “not safe” after the platform refused to act over the thousands of rape threats she was sent, and Stella Creasy, who spoke of her concern that online abuse will cause girls to "shut down and not speak up any more" in an interview with Stylist.

Report reveals shocking extent of "human rights abuses" against women MPs online