Happened to sir david amess yesterday. happened to sir david amess yesterday- happened to sir david amess esterda . , , ., , yesterday. yes, well put. two big areas spring yesterday. yes, well put. two big areas spring to yesterday. yes, well put. two big areas spring to mind yesterday. yes, well put. two big areas spring to mind from, - yesterday. yes, well put. two big areas spring to mind from, and i areas spring to mind from, and obviously this has transported us right back to the time whenjo cox died and the shock of that and this fresh shock with sir david losing his life. ithink fresh shock with sir david losing his life. i think on policing and security, i think harriet harman had a very strong point, where there is surely a medium. a very strong point, where there is surelya medium. no a very strong point, where there is surely a medium. no one i think is realistically talking about the kind of close protection for members of parliament that the home secretary and the p
You can get things moving far faster than having to wait for the surgery date, as well. but for david amess, meeting constituents was a vital part of his job. so the question now is how much further should security be tightened 7 many believe things have to be reappraised but mps themselves must decide. it s not a question of carrying on with business as usual and just regarding this as an occupational hazard of being an mp. nor of having close security such as the home secretary has, or the prime minister or the foreign secretary needs to have. we need to have a discussion about how we strike the balance. but it will be hard to find. two years ago in the royal albert hall, a fundraiser for people with learning disabilities, championed by sir david amess, a public role he loved, but guaranteeing mps security is a huge challenge. damian grammaticas, bbc news.
We will talk more in a moment about that but first a leigh on sea with daniel sandford. that but first a leigh-on-sea with daniel sandford. that but first a leigh-on-sea with daniel sandford. yes, the vigil was spontaneously daniel sandford. yes, the vigil was spontaneously organised daniel sandford. yes, the vigil was spontaneously organised this - spontaneously organised this evening, it was due to start at seven o clock, and at seven o clock there were possibly 300 people, people here have just marked a minute s silent. they are here with candles and dogs, reminiscing about sir david and almost everybody here had a personal story to tell about him because he was a man that attended so many events in the constituency that helped so many people with problems they had. almost everyone was laying flowers at the cordon around where the incident happened. they had some story about how david had helped them or had attended some significant event in their life and
The decision was made to spend some time remembering a man who was so much a part of their lives since 1997, and was really, in a way that many mps are not, was a significant figure in this community. figure in this community. daniel, thank ou figure in this community. daniel, thank you very figure in this community. daniel, thank you very much. figure in this community. daniel, thank you very much. daniel- figure in this community. daniel, - thank you very much. daniel sandford in leigh on sea. the former labour mpjohn woodcock now lord walney is an independent adviser to the government on political violence and disruption. he s been conducting an review due to be submitted by the end of year. hejoins me now. i know that when you originally appointed, you are focusing on far right violence but the whole area of political violence is a big one and obviously you were still an mp when jo cox was killed. i wonder if you think there are lessons we thought we d learned that perhaps
We have installed panic alarms at my front door, at the side of my bed. you know, this has become too much of the new normal. mps security was reviewed afterjo cox was murdered five years ago, shot and stabbed by a violent white supremacist as she left a constituency meeting. in 2010, stephen timms was attacked by women who had watched radical islamic sermons online. she was bundled away. and in 2017, four passers by and pc keith palmer were all killed outside parliament in what the police called an act of islamist related terror. the mp who was here that day and tried to save pc palmer s life has said that meeting constituents is vital but they should be paused. the home secretary has announced a review of mps security and he said that should be completed first. i would recommend that no mp has a direct surgery until. you know, you can move to zoom. there s other ways. you can actually achieve an awful lot over the telephone,