Former Conservative MP Sarah Wollaston has told The Independent she is too afraid to advertise meetings in public because of death threats and abuse – and said some of her former Tory colleagues are to blame for encouraging a culture of violent hostility towards politicians.

Lindsay Hoyle, a Commons deputy speaker, urges colleagues to take precautions.

Union says police need to do more to counter ‘surge in violent extremism against journalists and media workers’.

The self-styled “yellow vest” protester James Goddard has denied calling the MP Anna Soubry a Nazi and a traitor, during a chaotic court hearing in which the judge adjourning proceedings partway through.

Video found of James Goddard, part of group who barracked Anna Soubry, arguing Islam should be banned from west.