MPs are being hit with genuine threats and abuse from individuals, and they must be taken seriously. But there is no sign that Leave voters are ready to mount a ‘civil war’ if Brexit is delayed again or stopped by a referendum.

This week’s violence is an ominous sign that leaving the EU took a wrecking ball to the Good Friday agreement.

IT should give nobody any satisfaction to say of the current deeply troubling disorder in Northern Ireland that it was, alas, not only utterly predictable, but constantly predicted.

Loyalist fears that Boris Johnson is abandoning them have sparked a wave of violence that could endanger the Good Friday Agreement.