Shabana Mahmood: “These are important steps – and they will make a difference. But we know we must go further.”

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

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

I will not hesitate to impose further measures on other countries refusing to cooperate.

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