British PM lays flowers at site of slain MP amid calls for pause on meetings with voters

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lays flowers at the church where fellow Conservative Party MP David Amess was stabbed to death, prompting renewed anxiety over politicians' safety.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has laid flowers at the church where an MP was stabbed to death a day earlier, in what police say was a terrorist attack probably linked to Islamist extremism.Boris Johnson lays flowers at the site with the Opposition LeaderThe attack on David Amess, from Mr Johnson's Conservative Party, comes five years after the murder of Jo Cox, a politician from the opposition Labour Party, and has prompted a review of the security of elected politicians.

Mr Johnson, Interior Minister Priti Patel, and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer were on Saturday among those to lay flowers in tribute to Mr Amess at the scene of the killing. "All measures are being put in place for the security of MPs so that they can carry on with their duties as elected democratic members," Ms Patel said.In Westminster, where MPs do much of their work in parliament, armed police are on patrol. But in their constituencies, more often than not there is no security.Boris Johnson said Sir David Amess was a much-loved friend and colleague.

 

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A pause on meetings with voters would mean democracy in the UK dies with this MP.

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