Hello and welcome to a special edition of Coffee House shots. Just after 3 o'clock this afternoon,

news broke that the Conservative MP, Sir David Amos, died after being stabbed at a surgery in his

constituency. A 25-year-old man has been arrested. So 10 years after Stephen Timbs was stabbed

in his constituency, five years after Joe Cox was killed in hers. Westminster is now numb with the news

of yet another political killing. I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm joined by James Horsif and Isabel Hardman.

James, what do we know about the circumstances of his morning? So we know that David Amos was holding a

surgery in his constituency. It was a surgery being held in a church. He had

advertised it online. And we know that at about midday, reports emerged that he had been stabbed.

And tragically, as you say, just after 3pm today, we found out that he had died of the wounds

that he had received. I think what this will do is raise a debate about the

safety of MPs. Lindsay Hall was Speaker of House of Commons has already said that was something

that will have to be spoken about. MPs in these constituency surgeries are extremely vulnerable.

They are dealing with people, often people who are angry or upset about

something. And I think when you talk to MPs, I was on the phone to a veteran MP when the news

came through that David Amos had been stabbed. And one of the first things they said to me was

that when you talk to any group of MPs now, even in a relatively small

group, there's nearly always someone who's had a death threat. But these threats have become

quite ubiquitous for MPs and have, I think, changed the nature of a job for many of them.

This MP has been serving for a long time said that he now only sees people on an appointment after

his staff had a chance to check that they are who they say they are. And I think that we have to,

we should, I think we should all reflect on the risks that MPs have to run and doing what,

what most of us would consider to be a fairly basic part of their job. I think people will mourn Sir David Amos.

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