'They will get me killed': Mothin Ali slams Starmer and Tory MP over smears in parliament

'They will get me killed': Mothin Ali slams Starmer and Tory MP over smears in parliament Submitted by Imran Mulla on Tue, 03/03/2026 - 12:37 Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke falsely claimed Green Party deputy leader had been 'protesting in support of the ayatollah' Green Party co-deputy leader Mothin Ali at the party conference on 3 October 2025 (MEE/Imran Mulla) Off The Green Party's co-deputy leader, Mothin Ali, has told Middle East Eye he fears for his life and has faced death threats after a Conservative MP made a false claim about him in parliament which the prime minister appeared to agree with. "They will get me killed," Ali told MEE on Tuesday morning, adding that "over the last couple of days I've received about 20 death threats". Tory MP and former cabinet minister Alec Shelbrooke claimed, while asking a question to Prime Minister Keir Starmer in parliament on Monday, that Ali, a Leeds councillor, had been "protesting in support of the ayatollah".