Tributes to Sir David Amess

In the last few days, there have been many tributes to Sir David, from politicians of all parties...

Sir David Amess was my best and oldest friend in politics, so I confess that I am hurting terribl...

It is a considerable pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Rayleigh and Wickford (Mr Franc...

David was a man of faith and convictions—faith in his religion and convictions in his politics. H...

Can I just say, to reassure the House, that the animals are being looked after and his office is ...

Beyond the horror that we all feel, Sir David’s family are first and foremost in my thoughts. I w...

We now come to the Father of the House, Sir Peter Bottomley.

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I agree with the right hon. and learned Member for Camberwell and Peckham (Ms Harman) and the rig...

The grief, the sadness and the shock that we are all feeling today on the awful loss of Sir David...

Laughter, service, compassion: these are three of the words that spring to my mind when I think o...

As has been alluded to, Sir David was a man of deep Catholic faith. The Gospel of John, chapter 1...

It was a true privilege to have known David Amess. He was simply one of the best people I have ev...

I rise on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends to record the common and unified voice of the ...

I think the whole House will be left in no doubt of the genuine affection in which Sir David’s co...

I knew David for perhaps 25 years, and for eight years we were constituency neighbours when I was...

I am going to be, or at least intend to be, brief; after all, pretty much everything about David ...

Can I just urge us to try to be brief to get plenty of others in? I call Yvette Cooper.

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Thank you, Mr Speaker. I will just briefly join the tributes that we have heard.

Sir David ...

I first met David Amess nearly 40 years ago, shortly after his historic election as MP for Basild...

We have rightly been reminded of David’s enthusiastic advocacy for the constituencies that he rep...

Order. We would all like to have a long time to hear more of these heart-warming stories and reco...

We have heard magnificent tributes from the Prime Minister, from the Leader of the Opposition, fr...

I spent a lot of time over the weekend thinking about what to say if I were called today—and inde...

David was indeed a great character, with a fantastic sense of humour, and I am honoured to have b...

If you had told me before I was elected in 2015, Madam Deputy Speaker, that just a few years late...

I will be brief because I know that many others want to pay their respects and tributes. It is ri...

It is with incredible sadness and, I have to admit, some anger that I rise to pay tribute to my f...

It is an honour to speak on behalf of my party and to send commiserations to Sir David’s family, ...

I rise to pay respect to our dear colleague and my friend, Sir David Amess. I got to know David i...

I join the tributes to the hon. Member for Southend West, who was a kind and generous colleague a...

May I begin by sending my condolences and prayers to David’s wife, Julia, and his five children?<...

If David had been here to hear the words spoken today, he would have loved the fact that there wa...

In this debate, the life of David Amess keeps invoking one word above all: kindness. The family’s...

I rise to speak about the brutal killing of our friend, David Amess. I know that we have an adver...

We will now follow the Serjeant at Arms to process to St Margaret’s Church for the service of rem...