Millions will be spent on personal bodyguards for MPs and home security upgrades within days after threats
MILLIONS will be spent on personal bodyguards for MPs within days, The Sun can reveal.
Ministers are negotiating extra cash of up to £15 million for those most at threat, as well as security upgrades in constituencies and private homes.
At least three MPs have been given close protection since the Commons was mobbed last week by anti-Israel protesters.
MPs went public with concerns over their safety leaving Parliament amid chaotic scenes outside.
Last night the Security Minister Tom Tugendhat and the Treasury were finalising the package that is set to be unveiled this week.
Mr Tugendhat told MPs the Home Office and Parliament would do “whatever is necessary” to protect members.
He told the Commons: “Over the past few weeks, we have seen disgraceful attempts to intimidate this House, to undermine the democratic process and to spread fear among those who have been elected to represent our country. That is unacceptable. It must end.
“To this House, I want to say clearly that the Government will defend our democracy. We are working with the police and with Parliament to ensure that disagreements are resolved in this House through debate, not outside with threats of violence.
“To those who seek to threaten this House, I say this: we will not be cowed; we will not be intimidated; and we will not be silenced. We will do whatever is necessary to protect those elected to represent us, to safeguard our freedoms and to protect our rights.”
It comes as the Commons Speaker reignited his row with SNP after blocking a fresh debate on a Gaza ceasefire.
The latest row saw the number of MPs publicly calling for Sir Lindsay Hoyle to resign hit 80.
Six SNP members added their names to demand for a Vote of Confidence, alongside three more Tories.
SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn hit out: “Last week the Speaker of the House of Commons broke the rules, this week he has broken his word.
Meanwhile Labour’s Chris Bryant admitted Labour used “grubby” tactics to buy time for Sir Keir Starmer to convince Hoyle to break Commons convention last week.
And he told Channel 4 he was in part “put up” to the ruse – sparking calls for an investigation from the Tories.