U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer visit the church where lawmaker Sir David Amess was stabbed to death during a meeting with voters in what police have described as a terrorist incident. A man is in custody.
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In a statement early Saturday, the Metropolitan Police described the attack as terrorism and said the early investigation “has revealed a potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism.” It did not provide any details about the basis for that assessment. Amess, a popular lawmaker, did not serve as a government minister during his long career. Though he was a social conservative on issues such as capital punishment and abortion, he had a reputation of being a fixer in Parliament, of being able to forge alliances across the political divide.
While members of Parliament don't necessarily have the power to fix the problems brought to them, they can use their positions and access to pressure officials at the national and local levels to get things done.
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