Robert Halfon, MP for Harlow in Essex, is “certainly considering” the use of security guards to protect his constituency surgery, his staff told the JC.
Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab told Sky News the government was “likely to look at things like private security guards... there’s already money available for that.” Rejecting the use of police to guard politicians, he said he would not want plainclothes officers outside his office as he did not want “a wedge but between me and the people who elected me”.
The MP, whose father was Jewish, spoke of threats to “life and limb” he has received that necessitated police protection.
Talking to BBC Breakfast, he said: “There will be people who have worse abuse than me, and I particularly feel for the female MPs, and I know colleagues of mine who have come off, for example, Twitter because it’s just so vile.”
