MP’s security costs have increased by 29 percent last year and are set to rise further following the fatal stabbing of Conservative MP Sir David Amess, the UK’s parliamentary watchdog said on Friday. Publishing its annual figures on MP’s business costs, the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) said the total security assistance cost for the year 2020–21 was around £4.37 million ($5.92 million), almost £1 million ($1.36 million) more than the previous financial year. IPSA Chair Richard Lloyd said the cost could increase further this year following Amess’s murder because it’s “absolutely vital for our democracy” to ensure the safety of MPs, their families, and their staff. The murder of Amess by Islamist extremist Ali Harbi Ali last October marked the second fatal attack on a sitting British lawmaker in their constituency in the last five years. In 2016, Labour MP Jo Cox was murdered in her small-town constituency in …