we ve met and discussed issues of importance to the town, most recently of course southend s city status bid which is a huge passion of sir david s, but we ve been working together on. so we are on different sides of the political debate but i ve always found him an extremely warm, friendly and caring person to work with. when we raise the question about access notjust when we raise the question about access not just to when we raise the question about access notjust to mps but to councillors, where do we go from here, because this kind of thing cannot be allowed to happen but equally it cannot be allowed to limit people s access to those that represent them and make decisions on their behalf and vote on laws and policies that affect everyone, how do you square those two competing
council leader? well, i believe that everything that i am led to believe says the police have the situation under control, although i don t want to speculate any further on the circumstances but all i want to say is i am sure everyone s thoughts and southend will be with sir david and his family at this time. you yourself, you sit across the political divide, sir david amess a conservative politician, yourself, at labour politician, give us a sense of what he s like to deal with, do you find him someone who reaches out and works across political differences to make things happen for people in it constituency? certainly sir david and i have always had a very friendly and civil working relationship. obviously