On the 15th October 2021 British Member of Parliament David Ames was stabbed to death during a meeting with his constituents at a local church. The police are treating this as an act of terrorism, and have arrested 25 year old Ali Harbi Ali on suspicion of murder; Harbi Ali is the son of Harbi Ali Kullane who served as Somalia’s Communication Minister and as an advisor to the Prime Minister of Somalia. This murder follows a similar case of the murder of Jo Cox MP in 2016 who was murdered in the street by a far right extremist on the way to a similar a constituency surgery. Why is there an increasing in violence against politicians in Britain in recent years?

