UK's Labour faces deepening divisions with leadership contest

London

DEATH threats, a brick through a window and one lawmaker even installing a panic room in her office; less than a year after Britain's Labour elected socialist Jeremy Corbyn leader on a promise of "kinder politics", the party is mired in civil war.

The brutal infighting threatens Labour's 116-year existence and risks leaving Britain without a strong opposition party for years to come, just as the government goes about negotiating the country's exit from the European Union (EU).

Britain's June 23 EU referendum brought simmering tensions within Labour to the boil, resulting in a leadership challenge. On one side are hundreds of thousa…