Shabana Mahmood: “As we restore control and fairness to our asylum system, we must do the same for legal migration too.”

I can therefore announce today that I will expand, with immediate effect, police support to political figures who are not currently members of parliament.

I would not hesitate to impose further measures on other countries refusing to co-operate.

Those who enter public life do so to serve. Robust debate and criticism are part of the job. Threats, abuse and violence are not.

An attack on any individual in public life is an attack on every one of us, and it is an attack on democracy itself.