said try to remain inconspicuous in your constituency. well, in a marginal seat bus the last thing you want to do, you want people to know you are round and about and doing a job. things have improved a bit. there are no courses they hold to enable mps, peers and staff to understand something of how you can bring people down from a high of violence, talk them down so you can discuss their problems sensibly and get a proper conclusion. what has happened today is just so awful and my sympathies go out to david and his family and all his friends, and his constituents in southend west. lord jones, the former liberal democrat mp, nigeljones, talking about the terrible incident he experienced back in 2000. within the last half an hour, the home office