The killing of a veteran lawmaker, David Amess, in a public stabbing leaves Britain reeling, sparking a terrorism investigation and renewing calls to address politicians' safety.
But as the probe continued and tributes poured in for the longtime member of parliament, the spotlight was also shifting to politicians' safety.
“I find myself now, working as a politician and trying to help people and trying to do good things for people," she told Sky News, which is owned by NBC News' parent company Comcast."But this is the risk that we're all taking.” Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whose ruling Conservative Party the 69-year-old Amess represented, was also joined at the scene by Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the opposition Labour Party.
Cox's murder at the hands of a right-wing extremist came in the days leading up to the 2016 Brexit vote, an issue that has helped stoke divisions and a sometimes febrile mood. . There have been other occasional attacks in the U.K. in past decades, too, including the stabbing of a lawmaker in 2010 by a student radicalized online.But after Amess' death many urged a reckoning with the level of anger often directed at public servants, as well as a focus on the level of security they are afforded.harm their relationship with the public.
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