Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle fears more MPs will be killed after Jo Cox and David Amess

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House of Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle says he has received death threats and is staying awake for fear another MP will be murdered after the murders of Jo Cox and David Amess

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The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said he lay awake at night fearing another phone call telling him that an MP had been murdered.

The veteran politician was a close friend of Tory MP Sir David Amess, 69, who was stabbed to death at a constituency meeting a year ago today.

He was also deeply affected by the murder of Labor MP Jo Cox, 41, in 2016, when he was vice-chairman and a colleague of his party.

In an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror, Sir Lindsay, 65, said: "I remember receiving a call with the tragic news that Jo Cox had been murdered. Five years later, I I picked up the phone to learn that Sir David had been attacked while carrying out an operation.

MP Jo Cox was murdered in 2016 (

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Sir David Amess died in 2021 after being stabbed (

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“The only thing that keeps me awake at night is the worry of getting another phone call. I never want to have to answer another call again to say another MP has been murdered."

Sir Lindsay, MP for Chorley, Lancs, since 1997, visited the stage at Sir David's...