Surrendering to the mob too frightened to do the job would be the ultimate defeat, says Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg

There is a concerted effort to instil fear into British politics. The march last week outside Parliament, it was the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ben Jamal, who told the crowd before him there is a reason why Labour today is twisting in the wind.

There is a reason for the chaos descending behind you, and that’s because MPs are feeling the pressure. They’re becoming worried. The culture of fear is here.

As early as November, there were hundreds of activists protesting outside a Labour MPs office in east London.

We saw the vandalism of the Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens’s office, with posters put up suggesting she had blood on her hands. We then saw targeted protests at the office for the member for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough Gill Furniss.

There’s the member for Bournemouth East Tobias Ellwood targeted in his own family home, the member for Ilford North Wes Streeting and the member for Oxford East Anneliese Dodds.

We’ve seen recent disruption in London, Edinburgh, Bedford and in Staffordshire. We’re now seeing more death threats to politicians and candidates too.

And of course, this all culminated in the decision from the Speaker last week to break with convention in an attempt to allow MPs to escape the wrath of the mob.

Speaking to the Andrew Marr Show last night, the Mother of the House, Harriet Harman, suggested the solution to the fear MPs are feeling now.

Remote voting would be surrendering to the mob, hiding away in the corner, tabulating, too frightened to do the job would be the ultimate defeat.

Margaret Thatcher after the Brighton bomb, showed the virtue of carrying on. When our way of life is under threat, we must not change our way of life.

We cannot capitulate to it. That is how the mob wins. The police must use the powers they already have to crack down on the mob’s intimidation.

Members of Parliament must take some share of responsibility for this chaos.

As I said yesterday, what we’re seeing in our streets is the combination of uncontrolled and unintegrated mass migration and radical Islamist ideology.

Mass migration has been a policy imposed by legislators over the past 25 years or so.

The appropriate response to this is not to pretend we are immune to the consequences of our policies and abandoned our democratic freedoms.

We must face them head on, crack down on criminality, and most importantly, protect liberty, the rule of law and justice.