The Independent - October 17, 2021
The Independent - October 17, 2021
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2 mins
Do we stick or twist in the interest rates conundrum?
Inflation is becoming increasingly hard to ignore.
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.
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
3 mins
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