00:00I think we've seen cases internationally, we saw in America a female politician who was unfortunately shot as well
00:07and we've seen violence that has escalated two of my colleagues in the decade that I've been a serving member
00:13of parliament
00:13I've been murdered doing their job and unfortunately that has become something that we all as MPs
00:20there isn't an MP that hasn't had a death threat or threatening behaviour
00:24I'm concerned that what this does is it means that people pull out a public life
00:28and therefore we have to make sure that politicians no matter what their political persuasion are protected
00:35to be able to have that debate because you're elected and you have to respect the fact that if there
00:40is a politician elected
00:42by their constituents, they're there on behalf and we will all lose out in our democracy
00:47if it's by fear that people are removed from office and that cannot be acceptable
