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Evening Standard
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Jitendra Joshi

Labour candidate in Finchley and Golders Green urges new offence to protect MPs as Mike Freer quits

Labour’s candidate in Finchley and Golders Green called on Monday for a new offence to outlaw threats against elected figures after the constituency's Tory MP Mike Freer said he would not be standing at the next election.

Sarah Sackman said she was “shocked” at the announcement by the Conservative, who revealed last week that he was being driven out of politics by death threats and an arson attack on his constituency office.

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