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Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The UK government announced a multi-million-pound package on Wednesday to boost the security of elected lawmakers who say they face increasing threats.<\/p>\n The \u00a331 million ($39 million, 36 million euros) in extra funding over the next year comes as some British MPs have been targeted over their stance on the Israel-Hamas war.<\/p>\n Under the new provisions, lawmakers will have access to dedicated police contact to discuss security while those most at risk could seek bodyguards, the interior ministry said.<\/p>\n The money will also expand cybersecurity advice to MPs and increase police patrols in areas witnessing heightened community tensions, the Home Office added.<\/p>\n \u201cNone of us should have to accept that enduring hate crimes, harassment, or threats is part of the job,\u201d interior minister James Cleverly said in a statement.<\/p>\n British MPs have expressed growing concerns about their safety amid a surge in anti-Semitic and Islamophobic incidents since the conflict in Gaza broke out on October 7.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said MPs had been \u201cverbally threatened and physically, violently targeted,\u201d with \u201clegitimate protests hijacked by extremists.\u201d<\/p>\n On Monday, Labour MP Dawn Butter told the chamber that she had been forced to seek extra police support after suffering \u201cfar-right abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n UK lawmakers have long been wary of their security following the high-profile murders of two MPs in recent years.<\/p>\n They are entitled to extra security at their homes and constituency offices under Operation Bridger, which was established in 2016 following the killing of Labour MP Jo Cox.<\/p>\n Cox was shot and stabbed by a neo-Nazi sympathiser before the Brexit referendum.<\/p>\n In 2021, Conservative MP David Amess died from multiple stab wounds inflicted by an ISIS group follower.<\/p>\n In 2010, Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed and seriously wounded by an extremist as he met constituents in east London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed\u00a0\u00a0 The UK government announced a multi-million-pound package on Wednesday to boost the security of elected lawmakers who say they face increasing threats. The \u00a331 million ($39 million, 36 million euros) in extra funding over the next year comes as some British MPs have been targeted over their stance on …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15101,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions\/15101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}