MPs will be offered security guards at constituency surgeries from today, following the murder of Sir David Amess last Friday in Leigh-on-Sea.
The veteran politician was stabbed to death in a suspected terrorist attack while he was offering support to some of his constituents.
Home secretary Priti Patel and speaker Lindsay Hoyle wrote in a joint letter that a “trained and accredited security operative” would be available to every MP, as they are at risk from a “small minority of hostile individuals”.
Meanwhile, the chancellor’s plans to cut billions more from the foreign aid budget has been condemned by some of the government’s own advisers.
In a letter to Boris Johnson, they wrote that the UK needed to be “serious about” about helping poor nations to tackle pressing issues such as the climate crisis.
