Mike Freer has served as the MP for London's Finchley and Golders Green since 2010
MP Mike Freer said he feels as if he has no choice but to quit politics and admitted: "I can't do it anymore."
Speaking to Patrick Christys on GBNews, Mr Freer, who will stand down at the next election, said: “It's been quite a traumatic experience. It's a real wedge to walk away from a job that you love and a constituency that I live in today - it’s my home.
"I regard many of my constituents as friends and it is an amazing place. To walk away from that is really quite emotional, but unfortunately, I can’t do it anymore.
“Like every MP, day in day out you get emails and low-level stuff that we shouldn’t accept, but we do. In the past I've had a marked Molotov cocktail left on the office door meaning we had to evacuate. I found a note on my car - it's common knowledge where I live, but what I drive is less common. It makes you nervous with all that going on. I’ve had two run-ins with Muslims Against Crusade.
“There is a very unsettled saying ‘We're coming for you’ and they did. They broke into the surgery, they pushed someone out of the way and they basically then started abusing me and I was moved into the office for my safety until the police could arrive. They came back at the next surgery, luckily the police were there. As MPs we shrug it off, it's par for the course but it shouldn’t be.
“We had Ali Harbi Ali, who when he went on Sunday to kill David Amess was obviously arrested. Then when the police went through his phone they found he had been to Finchley several times.
"He had come to Finchley and he told the police he was armed with the intention to harm. It was only by a stroke of luck that on that night Boris Johnson saved my life - not many people can say that. He moved me from the Whip’s office so instead of being in Finchley I was in Westminster. Otherwise, I would have been in my office that Friday.
He said: “I think social media has a lot to blame because people get their news from social media and it's unfiltered. And if it's on social media, it must be true.
"But the social media companies really don't do enough to take harmful content off, or when you complain about something that's on there. Basically, either you don't get an answer to your complaint or nothing happens.”
