The pair put their rivalry aside as they arrived together at Leigh-on-Sea in Essex on Saturday morning.The Conservative MP, who represented Southend West, was attacked during a local constituency surgery.Mr Johnson and Sir Keir laid flowers and silently paid their respects on the quiet residential street outside the Belfairs Methodist Church.
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood has suggested pausing face-to-face meetings between MPs and constituents until that has been completed.Councillor Kevin Buck, deputy chairman of the Southend West constituency association, said he is against moving MPs’ surgery meetings to Zoom. Speaking to BBC Breakfast, he said: ‘I don’t think he would have approved, I personally don’t approve really, I know we have to take our own personal safety very seriously, but I enjoy, as Sir David did, meeting the people.
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Just terrible that is. Then honest foreigners like me get the blame. 😡 They need better vetting to keep these attackers out of Britain 🇬🇧
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