Shabana Mahmood: “This surge in enforcement activity takes us to the highest level in British history. Illegal workers and rogue employers…”

Robust debate and criticism are part of this job - threats, abuse and violence are not.

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

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

In a more dangerous world, we are faced by threats from without and within that target our democracy and our way of life.