Jenkyns, the MP for Morley & Outwood, was appointed as a parliamentary under-secretary of state for education on Friday evening, in Boris Johnson’s reshuffle of the caretaker government.
The minister has since said she was 'sticking up for herself' after receiving death threats.
Jenkyns was also heard to shout as she left Downing Street following Mr Johnson's speech.
In videos recorded of her leaving, she told the crowd, ‘He who laughs last, laughs loudest. Wait and see.’
In a statement on Twitter, Ms Jenkyns said she had received 'huge amounts of abuse from some of the people who were there over the years’.
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