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Meeting them where they are: a British MP’s murder

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The Politics of Public Speaking in Politics

He was one of the hundreds of m ps who don't get famous, but none the less do quite a lot of good by working on unglamorous causes. This isn't the first time we've seen it, an attack of this sort on an m p speaking to constituents. In 20 16, joe cox was murdered by a farright extremist. And then in two thousand we had nigel jones, who, i believe, was attacked with a samuray sword and his assistant, andrew pennington died protecting him. There wasn't any ideological motivation there. I believe it was a constituent who was drowning in debts and mentally unwell, and began to blame

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