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 posted outside her constituency surgeries, very few people attended, it put people off attending because of the police presence,