SECURITY changes have taken place at a Hampshire MP’s office following the sudden death of an MP last week.

Caroline Nokes will not be holding any drop-in surgeries for the “foreseeable future” after Labour MP Jo Cox was killed outside Birstall Library last Thursday.

The Romsey MP, who attended a vigil in Southampton in her memory, said the decision was due to the death of her colleague and friend and after advice from security officials. She was one of a handful of MPs who continued to hold drop-in surgeries.

A spokesman for Ms Nokes said that members of the public will still be able to make appointments to see her at her office in Market Place.

They hoped to return to the surgeries around the constituency, with pre-booked appointments at a later date.

They added that no threats had been made to neither Ms Nokes nor her staff in recent months.

Ms Nokes said: “Whilst for now I have suspended drop-in surgeries, I will, of course, keep holding appointment-only surgeries, which in any case have always run alongside the drop-ins. In fact I was rather unusual among colleagues for holding drop-ins, but I always rather enjoyed them, especially when we hit upon the idea of holding them in pubs.”

“So I am reviewing them in the light of security concerns and am sure we will come up with an appropriate compromise.”

Most other Hampshire MPs only held by-appointment sessions with the public.

owever, Southampton Itchen MP Royston Smith said he currently had no plans to cancel street and mobile surgeries at Bitterne Market which are advertised in advance.

Eastleigh MP Mims Davies said plans for holding drop-in surgeries during the summer were now under review. 

A spokesman for Gosport MP Caroline Dinenage said that extra security was being considered when she holds her by-appointment surgeries.

Mrs Cox had been due to hold a constituency surgery before she died. She had been campaigning on behalf of the Remain group.

Prime Minister David Cameron and the leader of the Labour opposition, Jeremy Corbyn joined together to pay tributes to her.

Vigils were held across the country in the days following her death and on Wednesday crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square to remember her life on what would have been her 42nd birthday.

Her widower Brendan and two young children joined friends, colleagues and high-profile campaigners in London, as others met in her home town of Batley in Yorkshire, and at international events.