Protest isn’t harassment, says group suing UK government

Human rights group Liberty says spotlight on MPs’ safety has seen Tories ‘vilify’ Palestine marchers

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"Like many people who have read The Ladybird Guide to History, and understood at least parts of it, I do instinctively recoil from anyone declaring: “We are the only people telling the truth.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/23/commons-democracy-mps-intimidated-precedent

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Tears, shouting, procedural tantrums: just your standard day in the Commons, until democracy took a sinister turn

When MPs are intimidated and precedent binned, let’s not pretend there’s any justification, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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MPs wear stab vests to meet constituents over safety fears | The Independent
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‘Even before we’ve had breakfast many of us have received one or two threats,’ says Tory MP Virginia Crosbie

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-stab-vests-constituents-security-b2255090.html

MPs wear stab vests to meet constituents over safety fears

‘Even before we’ve had breakfast many of us have received one or two threats,’ says Tory MP Virginia Crosbie

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