Chris Furlong

@bmay I suspect we could easily get 1000 politicians, if all MPs, some Peers and retired prominent former politicians. Multiply 1000 by 16 (the number required for 24hr close protection) which suggest a need for 16,000 armed protection officers.

@ChrisFu45221300 Yes, I have worked with people who had it. I’d prefer that to people being killed.

Sadly I think the way the world is now we do need to provide proper round the clock security for MPs, along with high profile former politicians of all persuasions. The polarisation of our politics and the depravity of some viewpoints, fuelled by social media, makes it necessary.

@dave43law To be fair, no other country works on the "good chaps" principle.

The cast majority allocated through the VIP lane Guess what - no other country had a VIP lane Guess which political ideology most of those awarded contracts supported....

@SimonDanczuk He is an elected MP.

Unelected Burnham will be Prime Minister for months before he faces parliamentary scrutiny - disgraceful. Labour imposing their retread on the British public and he's had no challenge from anyone. They won't be laughing when their Messiah with no Mandate is eventually answerable.

@christopherhope @GBNEWS Has Reform contacted X to report these vile threats? Was each one reported to the Police and the Speaker?

Reform UK recorded 1,577 threats against Mr Farage since February, including 597 death threats. - @GBNEWS

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg To save us looking it up, what did the Supreme Court say about you advising Her Majesty the Queen to porogue Parliament.

This is not how the Commons ought to operate.

@LeaderofKCC Farage was not elected by Reform members. He decided he wanted to be the leader and Tice stood down. Nobody else had a say. Where was transparency and scrutiny?

This. And more to the point, why is the media not screaming blue murder about the lack of transparency and scrutiny in this whole sorry ‘coronation of a PM’ process?

@RobertJenrick Because he has never requested one.

Why did it take the tragic murder of Ann Widdecombe for Nigel Farage to get a meeting about his security?

@RobertJenrick You have been complaining Burnham has not set out his plans. Now you are claiming he us going to raise £38bn in new taxes. Bit odd.

🚨Andy Burnham plans to raise taxes on your family by £3,450. He’s advocated £38 Billion of new taxes. No one voted for this. He needs to rule them out, today. If he won’t, Reform will fight him. Join our campaign now👇 burnhamtaxrises.com

@FreeNationTalk @SkyNews @KemiBadenoch The reason Sky News were at the house was because Farage claimed to be living there at the last election.

Just days ago, Nigel Farage expressed understandable anger after @SkyNews journalists allegedly doorstepped his daughter’s home, potentially placing her and her families safety at risk. @KemiBadenoch , along with her MPs and supporters, criticised him sharply. Badenoch described his reaction as a “hissy fit,” claiming he was “cracking under pressure” She portrayed his response as overblown rather than a legitimate reaction from a concerned parent. Now, with the murder of Ann Widdecombe, a prominent Reform UK spokeswoman, the very real dangers facing Reform UK politicians and their families have been tragically highlighted. The @Conservatives Party under Badenoch’s leadership should take time for serious reflection on these events.

@RobertJenrick Because the King has not invited him to form a Government.

Why is Andy Burnham hiding from scrutiny? Why won’t he tell the country his plan for governing?

One extraordinary thing to come out of the horrendous, vile murder of Ann Widdecombe is, what some people, including me, would describe as her abhorrent beliefs, is the fact she was an honest, true friend as witnessed by @IainDale @KHarveyProctor . There is lesson here.

@YardleyShooting @trevor_kavanagh Just for the record. In the UK we don't elect a Prime Minister. We vote for an MP. The King invites the leader of the party with the largest number of MPs to form a government.

Trevor Kavanagh the Sun political writer notes Burnham walking into No 10 with no election is a bigger scandal than anything to do with political donations. He's absolutely right too. Why aren't more people commenting on this insult to proper democracy? @trevor_kavanagh

@JanetOulag92058 So funny.

I live in Clacton and it’s not true about Nigel not being in Clacton (he lives there) myself and my family voted for him in 2024 and will be doing so again. We see what the left are trying to do, it won’t work.

@mikeerwydd1968 Funny how it works isn't it, all MPs are subject to the same Parliamentary rules.

So let me get this straight. Nigel Farage is being dragged in front of what many people will quite rightly see as an establishment kangaroo court. Instead of hiding behind lawyers, committees and Westminster procedure, he calls a by the book, legitimate by-election in Clacton and says: fine, let the people decide. And somehow that is a circus. A farce. A vanity project. But when Labour manufactured a by-election less than a month ago, got one of their own candidates to stand down, parachuted in their preferred man, and effectively cleared the path for their next Prime Minister, that was apparently democracy working exactly as intended. Funny how that works, isn’t it? When the establishment does it, it’s strategy. When Farage does it, it’s chaos. When Labour moves people around like chess pieces, it’s legitimate, and all above board, the whole bandwagon jumps onboard. When voters in Clacton are handed the final say, suddenly everyone starts clutching their pearls about the “cost to the taxpayer”, Even though Reform are funding it, but the establishment wants you to pay for one they "think" is coming later down the line. Honestly, some people need to wake the fuck up.....

@dave43law To be fair, Reform and Farage have intimate knowledge of wrong 'uns

Detectives are understood to be working on the theory that the former Strictly contestant was murdered after interrupting a burglar -THIS IS NOT THE STORY THAT FARAGE IS SPREADING Ann Widdecombe's killer's 24-hour head start with police working on burglary theory mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/a…

@claire_adams694 Reform are providing the security not the police. It's all performative.

If Ann’s death wasn’t politically motivated then why have all Reform MP’s been given 24 hour protection? I’d advocate for all central right politicians to be given it. This is scary times for those of us with conservative beliefs. dailymail.com/news/article-1…

@afneil Lowe has a particular issue because his Daddy had to give up his guns. If he meant one of incident of a massacre of very children, he should say so. Hiding behind semantics or claiming we all know what he meant is ludicrous.

The cult is out in force today, arguing that black is white. And vice versa. With barely half a brain between them. Hilarious the lengths they’ll go to defend the indefensible. Dunblane wasn’t one murder. Or an incident. It was a massacre of the innocents. Which should have been explained to a US audience which knows nothing about it. #nutjobs PS I couldn’t give a monkey’s what tune Mr Lowe dances to.

@dave43law To be fair, when has a member of the aristocracy done anything remotely wrong?

Elitist arrogance is the downfall of Reform - the proof is here. The farce of Reform being targeted is Trumpian crap "Asked if any due diligence was done where Ms Cottrell had got the money from, he told Times Radio: 'I've known the Cottrell family, my family have known the Cottrell family and the broader Hesketh family, for 50 years. 'A very successful aristocratic family, and as far as I'm concerned, she's a permissible donor and that's the end of it.' Tice as well as all others know of George's history - not only prison but with gambling, crypto etc' The 'as far as I'm concerned she's permissible' shows an arrogance and a disregard of due process Tice defends £1m from 'aristocratic family' of Farage ally fraudster mol.im/a/15967861 via @DailyMail

@adamboultonTABB Mr Boulton you are one of the best political reporters of your generation. Don't be cowed by this discipable pile on. I doubt, as Romsn Catholic,she would want to be or sought to be cannonised.

And another one. Police say not terror or politically motivated. Stop trying to exploit a horrific killing.