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respective public servant but also an attack on public service itself. 0ur democracy, our values, an attack on public service itself. 0ur democracy, ourvalues, because the british way of life is sustained by men and women who devote themselves to representing the interests of others. for mps, their relationships with their constituencies at the heart of what they are about and that means they have to be accessible, they must be able to listen. they must be able to engage and sir david famously had a reputation for doing just that. but his death emphasises the very real risks in the last few years police have recorded hundreds of crimes against mps, hate mail, harassment, death threats and some physical assaults. the home secretary, as we have been hearing, has been asking the police to review the security arrangements around mps and of course there will be discussions about how we can better protect our public representatives but very few politicians want this awful crime to
but it doesn t mean we don t have to work harder than ever to prove that democracy can still deliver for our people. many think people are changing so rapidly, democracies cannot get together and form a consensus to respond, like autocrats can. but you know better than anyone that democracy doesn t happen by accident. we have two strengthen it, defended, we knew it, and i know that the american people are up to thisjob. i know, because i look around this hanger, and what i see is ac america. i see america, people of different backgrounds coming together in a shared mission. 0ur democracy has never been perfect, never been perfect, but americans of all races, religions, sexual orientation, immigrants, native americans all have spilled their blood to defend the values that we talk about. generation after
states s traditional allies, reassuring them that things will be different. 0ur alliances, reassuring them that things will be different. 0uralliances, he said, were not built by coercion or threats, but by democratic ideals and the power of our example. and, to that end, on his arrival in just the last few hours, news has been breaking that the president is to announce on this trip this week that the united states will buy 500 million pfizer coronavirus vaccines that it million pfizer coronavirus vaccines thatitis million pfizer coronavirus vaccines that it is going to donate to the rest of the world. that it is going to donate to the rest of the world. that s right. the us has been rest of the world. that s right. the us has been criticised rest of the world. that s right. the us has been criticised for- rest of the world. that s right. the us has been criticised for hoarding vaccine supplies in the new doses that president biden is going to announce he has bought will be sent t
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