Racist taunts, rape threats and murder: Joe Penhall on his play about violence against MPs
James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin are starring in The Constituent, a play that asks if MPs are no longer safe. Here, its writer explores what politicians wearing stab vests means for democracy Since the murders of Batley and Spen MP Jo Cox and Southend West MP Sir David Amess, we've seen a rising tide of viciousness aimed at locally elected politicians, by apparently fairly ordinary constituents. There are all man…