“An attack on one politician is an assault on our democracy itself.” So said Zia Yusuf at the emergency press conference he called on Wednesday (15 July) to discuss MPs’ security.
Reform’s home affairs spokesperson is right. There are no two ways about it, no equivocating to be done. It was an assault on our democracy when the Labour MP Jo Cox was shot and stabbed on her way to a constituency surgery, ten years ago, by a neo-Nazi. It was an assault on our democracy when the Conservative MP David Amess was murdered, again while seeing constituents, six and a half years ago, by an Islamic extremist. The death threat against Nigel Farage that resulted in an arrest yesterday (15 July) was an assault on our democracy. And it is an assault on our democracy that crimes against MPs recorded by the police have doubled since 2019, while reports of death threats against our elected representatives have tripled.
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