House of Commons will remember colleagues who was killed in his constituency on Friday, as questions persist over MPs’ safety
Joanna Cherry, a Scottish National Party MP, has revealed that she considered quitting Parliament because of the “unrelenting attacks” made against her. She also suggested elected politicians may need to return to dealing with constituents either online or over the phone as they did at the start of the covid-19 pandemic. In July a court ordered Grant Karte not to contact Cherry for five years after he sent threatening messages to her on Twitter.
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