UK Parliament honors lawmaker slain at constituents’ meeting

By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has led a somber British Parliament in honoring the Conservative lawmaker stabbed to death as he met constituents at a church hall. The attack shocked Britain and it has raised questions about how the country protects it politicians and grapples with extremism at home. It came five years after Labour Party lawmaker Jo Cox was killed by a far-right extremist. Johnson said Amess “was taken from us in a contemptible act of violence, striking at the core of what it is to be a member of this House.” A 25-year-old British man with Somali heritage, Ali Harbi Ali, is being held under the Terrorism Act on suspicion of murder.