'Weren't talking about clamp down on Islamist extremism!' Michelle Dewberry in brilliant summary of 'shambles' policing and left-wing 'double-standards'

Speaker Lindsay Hoyle sparked outrage over his handling of the debate, citing concerns about MPs’ security, which has prompted further debate about the impact of threats and intimidation around the work of Parliament.

Michelle spoke on her GB News show about the murder of David Amess in 2021, saying the conversation surrounding the death was more about “#BeKind”, as opposed to Islamist extremism.

“It’s an absolute shambles”, she fumed.

“I’m telling you, this is going to get absolutely worse.

“That woman that chucked that egg at Martin Daubney, can you imagine for a split second if that was someone like Tommy Robinson on the opposite side of that fence?

“They wouldn’t have been able to get their hand in their pocket to pull anything out. They’d have been pepper sprayed in their eyes, pushed down to that floor.

“It is complete and utter double standards in the policing.

“What are we going to do about it?”

Novara Media’s Aaron Bastani offered a counterpoint, suggesting the political class may be “overcompensating”.

“The IRA tried to blow up Margaret Thatcher”, he said.

“I’m on the left, I don’t like Margaret Thatcher, but fair play to the woman, she carried on with her political agenda and it didn’t put her off.

“I do wonder and worry about a political class which doesn’t want to be critiqued, won’t want to be held accountable.

“They’ll use the language of safe space offence, #BeKind. And I’m not suggesting serious things haven’t happened, Mike Freer, Jo Cox etc, but I’m worried you can overcompensate.”

The Government’s political violence tsar has called for more police powers which will allow them to “disperse” protests around Parliament, MPs’ offices and council chambers that they deem to be threatening.

Baron Walney, the UK Government’s adviser on political violence and disruption, said the “aggressive intimidation of MPs” by “mobs” was being “mistaken” for an “expression of democracy”.

The comments by Lord Walney come as the issue of MP safety has once again reared its head this week following a chaotic debate on the Israel-Hamas war.

The cross-bench peer, who in December submitted a Government-commissioned review into how actions by political groups can “cross into criminality and disruption to people’s lives”, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme he was calling for police forces to act “uniformly in stopping” protest outside MPs’ homes.