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18 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
🔴NEW: Online hate towards MPs is “out of control”, Dominic Raab has warned after the murder of Sir David Amess

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💬There is a "certain inevitability" that Southend will now become a city in honour of its late MP Sir David Amess, the Justice Secretary has said
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🗣️Labour MP Jess Phillips admitted there was no single answer to the questions raised by the murder of Sir David Amess, but said "there has to be some solution to how easy it is to terrorise any elected representative"
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🔴Dominic Raab has told BBC Breakfast that there has been "widespread vilification of politicians" in recent times.

Mr Raab said that he has been the victim of three recent threats that required "intervention"

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