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October 17, 2021

Patel draws up police protection plan for MPs

Security review launched amid calls to end face-to-face meetings

Patel draws up police protection plan for MPs

1 min

Patel's security plans could offer MPs police protection

Speaking after visiting the scene of the crime, and following talks with police, security services, and Speaker Hoyle, Ms. Patel said that MPs must not let the violence of the kind seen on Friday “get in the way of our functioning democracy”. She refused to be drawn on the security changes being considered but said that it was “absolutely” possible to balance MPs’ safety with the need for constituents to have access to their representatives.

Patel's security plans could offer MPs police protection

5 mins

Police given six more days to question murder suspect

Police have been given six more days to question the man suspected of murdering Sir David Amess in a terrorist attack.

Police given six more days to question murder suspect

2 mins

‘MP with a heart': hundreds in Essex honour Amess

Relatives of Sir David Amess expressed bewilderment and shock at his killing as hundreds of well-wishers lit candles and left tributes at the scene of the attack in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, yesterday.

‘MP with a heart': hundreds in Essex honour Amess

3 mins

Jo Cox's MP sister asked to ‘step down' by her partner after shock of Amess killing

The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has said her partner suggested she stand down from being a member of parliament in the wake of the killing of Sir David Amess.

Jo Cox's MP sister asked to ‘step down' by her partner after shock of Amess killing

2 mins

Will this tragedy spell the end for MPs' surgeries?

For almost all MPs, constituency surgeries like the one at which Sir David Amess was murdered are a major part of their work which it is difficult to imagine giving up, even in the face of the evident danger which they represent to their safety.

Will this tragedy spell the end for MPs' surgeries?

4 mins

Test and trace blunder puts Covid-19 contacts at risk

A cost-saving blunder by the government’s test and trace service has triggered a 32 per cent drop in positive Covid test results entered into the Covid-19 app, The Independent has learned.

Test and trace blunder puts Covid-19 contacts at risk

2 mins

Do we stick or twist in the interest rates conundrum?

Inflation is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.

Do we stick or twist in the interest rates conundrum?

6 mins

Zaghari-Ratcliffe loses latest court appeal in Tehran

The foreign secretary says everything possible is being done to bring Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe home after she lost her most recent appeal in Iran – a setback that her husband described as a “wake-up call” for the government.

Zaghari-Ratcliffe loses latest court appeal in Tehran

3 mins

Satisfaction guaranteed as the Stones rip up the joint

Six decades after Jagger and Richards first met, the band are somehow still in their prime, writes Kevin EG Perry

Satisfaction guaranteed as the Stones rip up the joint

3 mins

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