“A Stupid, Stupid, Stupid Series”: Labour MP Lambasts ITV Drama ‘The Walk-In’ In Parliament
deadline.comA Labour MP who was the target of a far-right murder plot depicted in Jeff Pope’s Stephen Graham-starring ITV drama The Walk-In has lambasted the broadcaster for its “stupid, stupid, stupid series.” Speaking in the UK’s House of Commons yesterday, Rosie Cooper said she has had death threats since the series was broadcast and claimed she had been used as a “marketing tool” by ITV.
ITV Studios’ The Walk-In, which ended earlier this week and was watched by millions of viewers, starred Graham as Hope not Hate activist Matthew Collins, who infiltrated a far-right gang and got a tip-off in 2017 about a threat to Cooper which led to the arrest and imprisonment of a neo-Nazi who had bought a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP.
Cooper said she was “appalled” at her treatment by ITV. “What excuse is there for a press release that says, ‘Who is Rosie Cooper and who wanted to murder her’?
There is no defence to that,” she said, according to the BBC. Death threats have got worse since the show, added Cooper, who called The Walk-In a “stupid, stupid, stupid series.” She also recalled how she had been granted a government car at the end of one related trial because “ITV’s despicable cameraman chased me up and down the road”.
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