he was wonderful company. he was the life and soul of a party. he literally lit up a room. but for now this small seaside town stands together, united by a tragedy that has deeper questions for the safety of those trying to uphold democracy. frances read, bbc news. the home secretary, priti patel, says she is looking at a whole range of measures to better protect politicians. our political correspondent, peter saull, has been telling me more. there have already been some measures introduced following the murder ofjo cox, the labour mp for batley and spen in 2016, introducing things like panic alarms, shutters on constituency offices, but i think there is a consensus now that that does not go far enough and it is pretty patchy up and down the country, particularly when you have a lot of mps holding constituency surgeries in lots of different buildings,
wigan is that sort of place, people look after each other, and when they see things like this, my inbox is full of people saying, keep going and thank you and i m sure lots of mps are getting the same thing, but this isn t the first time this has happened. earlier, i spoke to labour mp for 0gmore and the chair of the all party parliamentary group on social media, chris elmore. he had extra police at his meetings this weekend, and says extra security was put in place following the murder ofjo cox in 2016. we already carry panic alarms, we have cctv in my constituency office, so i will be interested to hear what the home secretary and the speaker, who has been steadfast in trying to bring about additional protections for mps over many years, to see what new provision they can put in place to ensure that mps can carry on doing theirjobs. yes, of course, and this will come down to how you strike the right balance. i was speaking to diane abbott, and she said that the minute police were pos
to give reassurance, and kieran mullan in cheshire saying, we must not let people force us to do things differently. but today there are changes. in south wales, a police guard for an mp s coffee morning. and he already felt honourable. we now have cctv at the front and rear of the building. we had to have new security fitted onto the front and rear doors. we have panic alarms in the constituency office that staff often wear round their necks. 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 as she left a meeting in her local library by a white supremacist. in 2010, stephen timms mp survived an attack by a women who d 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 police called an act of islamist related terror. the mp
robert largan in the peak district saying he ll keep doing this all year round. craig williams in montgomeryshire thanking welsh police for being there to give reassurance, and kieran mullan in cheshire saying, we must not let people force us to do things differently. but already there are changes. in south wales, a police guard for an mp s coffee morning. and he already felt honourable. we now have cctv at the front and rear of the building. we had to have new security fitted onto the front and rear doors. we have panic alarms in the constituency office that staff often wear around their necks. 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 as she left a meeting in the
force us to do things differently. but today there are changes. in south wales, a police guard for an mp s coffee morning. and he already felt honourable. we now have cctv at the front and rear of the building. we had to have new security fitted onto the front and rear doors. we have panic alarms in the constituency office that staff often wear round their necks. 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 as she left a meeting in her local library by a white supremacist. in 2010, stephen timms mp survived an attack by a women who d 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 police called an act of islamist related terror.