Concerns raised for MPs’ safety after Trump shooting

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Kim Leadbeater MP, sister of murdered MP Jo Cox Kim Leadbeater, the sister of murdered MP Jo Cox, said the attack on Mr Trump raised questions about “what a civilised democracy looks like”. The Labour MP for Spen Valley, whose sister Ms Cox was killed by a far-right extremist in 2016, told BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that “we are back again having that conversation about what democracy looks like, what our politics looks like”. Clearly we have seen a rise in intimidation and attacks on serving politicians or people who want to be politicians in this country too House of Commons Leader Lucy Powell “We need a consensus against political violence in all forms.” Ms Cox was one of two serving MPs to have been murdered in the past nine years – alongside Conservative Sir David Amess, who was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery in October 2021. She told Sky News’ Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips: “Clearly we have seen a rise in intimidation and attacks on serving politicians or people who want to be politicians in this country too.” Ms Powell added there had been a “growing sense of insecurity and hate and attacks” which was “something that we need to take action on”.