Stephen Graham ITV Drama ‘The Stroll-In’ Slammed By Labour MP – Deadline

A Labour MP who was the goal of a far-right homicide plot depicted in Jeff Pope’s Stephen Graham-starring ITV drama The Stroll-In has lambasted the broadcaster for its “silly, silly, silly sequence.”

Talking within the UK’s Home of Commons yesterday, Rosie Cooper mentioned she has had demise threats because the sequence was broadcast and claimed she had been used as a “advertising and marketing device” by ITV.

ITV Studios’ The Stroll-In, which ended earlier this week and was watched by hundreds of thousands of viewers, starred Graham as Hope not Hate activist Matthew Collins, who infiltrated a far-right gang and obtained a tip-off in 2017 a few menace to Cooper which led to the arrest and imprisonment of a neo-Nazi who had purchased a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP.

Cooper mentioned she was “appalled” at her remedy by ITV.

“What excuse is there for a press launch that claims, ‘Who’s Rosie Cooper and who needed to homicide her’? There is no such thing as a defence to that,” she mentioned, based on the BBC.

Demise threats have gotten worse because the present, added Cooper, who referred to as The Stroll-In a “silly, silly, silly sequence.” She additionally recalled how she had been granted a authorities automotive on the finish of 1 associated trial as a result of “ITV’s despicable cameraman chased me up and down the highway”.

ITV, which has additionally aired a documentary on the incident, mentioned the present was performed “overwhelmingly within the public curiosity.”

“We at all times conduct the making of those sequence fastidiously and responsibly,” added a press release. “From Hillsborough, Bloody Sunday, Acceptable Grownup, Little Boy Blue and A Confession to The Misplaced Honour of Christopher Jeffries, ITV has a protracted report of broadcasting factual dramas based mostly on or representing actual occasions.”

A spokesman for Hope Not Hate backed the drama and mentioned, because it aired, a number of present and former members of the organized far proper have been in contact with the marketing campaign group searching for help to depart.

“Clearly, we’re upset to listen to Rosie’s phrases within the chamber in the present day. In 2017, a number of members of our group labored tirelessly and at large sacrifice to themselves to foil the homicide plot towards Rosie Cooper,” added the spokesman.