Though the amount of online and in-person abuse against U.K. politicians has risen, British lawmakers are guarded by armed police only when in Parliament.
Wales police said on Monday that they arrested a 76-year-old man who is suspected of sending a death threat to a U.K. lawmaker, the Associated Press reported.
Though the amount of online and in-person abuse against politicians in the U.K. has risen, British lawmakers are guarded by armed police only when they are in Parliament. When in their home districts, they are not typically extended such protection, AP reported. The death of the popular legislator—who had served in Parliament for almost 40 years and was knighted byin 2015—has shocked Britain, especially its politicians. It came five years after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was shot and stabbed to death by a far-right extremist. Cox was the first British lawmaker to be killed since a peace accord ended large-scale Northern Ireland violence almost 30 years earlier.
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