Killing of MP unites a town and country in mourning
Shortly after 9am last Saturday, Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer bent to lay wreaths at the Essex church where Conservative MP Sir David Amess had been killed less than 24 hours earlier. Accompanied by the rumble of helicopters, the political leaders soon left Leigh-on-Sea and a community searching for answers.
On Monday, Boris Johnson led tributes to Amess, 69, in Westminster while the MP’s widow, Julia, read messages on floral tributes left outside the church where
