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

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.

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.