The murder of the MP has provoked an agonised debate about how to stop future attacks
MPS GATHERED in the Palace of Westminster on October 18th, first in the House of Commons and then in St Margaret’s Church, to celebrate the life of one of their own.
His parents were Cockneys who moved to Essex in order to start a family. He was brought up in modest circumstances, with “an outside toilet and a tin bath hanging on the wall”, but nevertheless decided to become an MP in the same year that he passed the 11-plus test for the local grammar school. In the late 1970s he appeared in a political advertisement with Margaret Thatcher, who became his lifelong heroine.
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