In 2010 British MP Stephen Timms was nearly killed when a 21-year-old British student stabbed him during a meeting with his constituents in east London.
On 21 March 2011, in a Commons debate on the UN Security Council resolution authorising the intervention, the MP for Penrith and the Border said that there would not be the same level of legitimacy as there was in Kosovo because Libya "is not just an Arab country but a country with oil".