MPs are restricting advice surgeries with constituents and many are increasingly reluctant to use public transport alone in response to threats and abuse, according to an alarming Human Rights Committee report published last week.
The Committee has called for a Speaker’s Conference―a parliamentary commission convened by the Speaker―to tackle the problem and is urging social media companies to do more to keep their platforms safe, take down harmful content and respect the laws of the land. Commons Chair of the Committee, Harriet Harman MP, said the issue was ‘a threat to our democracy’.
