The mental health of MP's is being impacted by incessant trolling on top of the pressures of the job, so much so that one member of Parliament tried to take his own life.
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The programme reveals shocking testimony including one former government minister who tells us ‘Politics has left me a broken human being.’ A young MP describes attempting to take his own life, revealing to the BBC that he is not alone.
This programme asks whether the mental health crisis is affecting MPs' ability to govern. Many say it does, and that good people are simply being driven out or away from public life.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zdf4