Gordon Brown believes MPs should be given police protection if they want it following the killing of David Amess on Friday. The former Labour Prime Minister said the answer to the stabbing should not be "less democracy" as it is an attack on democracy itself.
Brown says cops will do everything in their power to protect elected representatives across the UK. Amess, who had been an MP since 1983, was meeting constituents at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea on Friday afternoon when he was stabbed multiple times in a frenzied attack.
A 25-year-old man was arrested immediately at the scene on suspicion of murder.Police on Saturday were granted a warrant of further detention, which allows detectives to hold the man until October 22.He
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