have you any updates about the situation of the condition of sir david amess? i situation of the condition of sir david amess? situation of the condition of sir david amess? i cannot add, i am afraid, to david amess? i cannot add, i am afraid, to what david amess? i cannot add, i am afraid, to what you ve david amess? i cannot add, i am afraid, to what you ve been i david amess? i cannot add, i am afraid, to what you ve been told. | afraid, to what you ve been told. clearly it s very serious and it is a profoundly shocking incident. this area, we were remarking at how it looks very residential and very safe. it does not look like the kind of area where anyone would be going and have concerns about something like this potentially happening. trio. like this potentially happening. no, indeed. like this potentially happening. ijrr, indeed. obviously it is not something you expect should happen anywhere at any time but suddenly there would be no reason to suspect this was a remotely
this has been confirmed by essex police, after a stabbing at the constituency office of the conservative mp sir david amess. a british councillor at the scene of the stabbing has told the news agency, reuters, he is not sure how serious it is but it is not looking good. that line coming to us from the reuters news agency. we will bring you more updates as we get them to stop let spring and our political correspondent who is following developments. peter, it has been said there was a stabbing at the constituency office. hasn t yet been confirmed it was sir david amess himself or do we not know that for sure yet? we amess himself or do we not know that for sure yet? for sure yet? we don t know that for sure, we for sure yet? we don t know that for sure. we know for sure yet? we don t know that for sure. we know a for sure yet? we don t know that for sure, we know a stabbing for sure yet? we don t know that for sure, we know a stabbing has - for sure yet? we don t know that for sur
if you don t mind me asking what were you due to meet on about? it was tonight, it was our annual conservative dinner which we were holding over at saxon hall, and we had a special guest that would have been coming and another mp mark fran ois was attending and hopefully a number of our supporters who would have been there and listening to sir david s and our guests talk to us about what we were doing and how we were moving forward but unfortunately i ve had to cancel that now. understandably so. i wonder, some mps inevitably if they become cabinet members or if they become senior mps, lots of their focus cabinet members or if they become senior mps, lots of theirfocus is taken up with business in westminster, is said david s, is he
are a very important part of our democracy, so that voters can go and see their elected representatives, raise concerns of them face to face and hope that they can do something about them. so they will be dozens of constituency surgery is happening up of constituency surgery is happening up and down the country today, friday is a very big day for that happening. as you can imagine, mps from all over the country reacting with horror at these reports we are hearing this afternoon. just with horror at these reports we are hearing this afternoon. hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone who hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone who is hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone who is joining - hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone who is joining us l hearing this afternoon. just to be cut for anyone who is joining us - cut for anyone who isjoining us the news that there has been expanding at
nearby there, certainly for the last half an hour, 45 minutes, since we have been able to look at the aerial images outside the church. there is certainly a police presence in the taped off area. just give us a sense of that area and how routine this sort of meeting of constituents would have been for an mp like sir david. it would have been for an mp like sir david. , ., , ., ., , david. it is a very routine. he was alwa s david. it is a very routine. he was always very david. it is a very routine. he was always very forthcoming - david. it is a very routine. he was always very forthcoming with i david. it is a very routine. he was always very forthcoming with his. always very forthcoming with his constituents, very public facing. he engaged lots, he would hold a lot of meetings at places, such as belfairs methodist church, on a regular occurrence. they would never be any sort of issue, disruption, any sort of violence of any kind. it was very much a normal day as far as this surger