Shabana Mahmood: “I know the thoughts of everyone here are with the victims and survivors of this vile criminal.”

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

Today I also announce an independent root-and-branch review of the protective security provided by the state to those in public life.

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.