Harriet Harman has sparked a fiery debate on GB News, after suggesting that MPs should be allowed to "return to working from home" amid ongoing security fears.

The Labour MP suggested the idea in an interview with Andrew Marr, as concerns about politician security has been heightened.

A reported £31million is to be used to protect MPs following recent events outside Parliament since the Hamas attacks on October 7.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, Harman said the government needs a "mechanism" to address "all the conflicting issues" that need to be balanced, and proposed a "speakers conference".

Patrick Christys blasted calls for MPs to work from home

Harman told Andrew Marr: "One of the things I think could come out of a speakers conference is an agreement that we could go back to hybrid again.

"Sometimes MPs could speak in the chamber, sometimes they could speak from their constituency, they could sometimes vote through the division lobbies or they could sometimes vote online."

Commentator Amy Nickell-Turner supported Harman's stance on hybrid working, and said MPs are "utterly worried" about going into Parliament.

Nickell-Turner said MP's "don't have to be physically present" to participate in democracy, calling the move "progressive".

Harriet Harman said there should be a 'speakers conference' for MPs to be able to adopt hybrid working

GB News host Patrick Christys slammed the idea and criticised the "mental gymnastics" the government is wanting to do to avoid "confronting the real issue".

Patrick told the panel: "What we are seeing here is the left cowering away from the devastating consequences of their own ideology."

Patrick fumed: "They welcome these extremists in, they let this ideology fester and now they are running scared from it at the taxpayer's expense.

"They were perfectly happy when this mob was voting for them and now there's a bit of pushback. They want to sit in a probably taxpayer funded bunker with bulletproof glass and hide away from it."

Hitting out at Nickell-Turner's view, Patrick asked her: "If we actually confronted the ideology and stopped the marches, we could give everyone - Amy, I know you care about the cost of living crisis - we can give everyone £800,000 each in this population. Surely you would rather have that?"

Nickell-Turner responded: "What we're talking about today is changing the parliamentary process so that people can work from home in a hybrid model. We saw it during Brexit, things were so divisive that people felt too intimidated to come in.

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"So if we could just make it more safe, more practical, and then it's just a better move. Westminster is in desperate need of a glow up. Why does everything have to be so centralised unnecessarily? Why do they have to be physically present? Why can't we do online votes?"

Patrick disagreed with Nickell-Turner and claimed it is "not just the fundamentalist extremists" that are causing threat to MPs.

He stated: "I find this absolutely staggering, to be honest. What about the rest of us? Oh, great, MPs get a £31million protection package and bodyguards, and get to work from home all the time. What about all these people who are out there at the coalface, especially in British media?

"MPs can sit in their basement via Zoom and call people like me an extremist, far right, and a racist for calling out the reality that Islamist extremism is a massive problem in this country. I look forward to the days of being lectured on Zoom by someone who's too scared to front up to their own consequence to their ideology."