David Amess stabbing — latest: Priti Patel considers social media anonymity ban to stop ‘relentless’ MP abuse

Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy has said her “bigger fear is this just keeps happening”.

“We keep having this debate and then nothing very much changes,” she told Sky.

She added: “We’ve got to get away from this idea that it’s about whether you protect MPs or protect democracy.

“You have to protect MPs to go about their daily business and be free to speak on behalf of their constituents to protect democracy. We have to get the balance right.”

Home secretary Priti Patel has said she could remove the right to anonymity on social media in the wake of the murder of Sir David Amess, to stop the “cruel and relentless” abuse of MPs and others.

Our political editor Andrew Woodcock has more on this:

Priti Patel has said it is “wrong” to automatically assert someone going through the government’s counterterrorism programme Prevent is “going down the stream of radicalisation”.

She told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday programme: “There are so many different component parts around prevent and channel programmes and it would be wrong for us to automatically assert that people that go through or have a referral to Prevent are automatically going down the stream of deradicalisation [sic].”

Asked whether she had any concerns the programme was failing in what it had been set up to do, she added: “I’m not going to make assumptions right now about the Prevent programme.”

Priti Patel has said extra protection for MPs such as police at constituency surgeries could be introduced to “safeguard our democracy”.

She told Sky’s Trevor Phillips on Sunday programme: “The Speaker has already put in a range of measures post Friday as we have with policing but there are other options that are being considered such as when you hold your surgeries could you have officers or some kind of protection.

“We will do absolutely everything. For me and the government this is about safeguarding our democracy.”

Asked whether things such as airport-style arches could be brought in, the home secretary said: “That would be with the police and House authorities. There are lots of things under consideration already.”

Home secretary Priti Patel is speaking to Sky News’ Trevor Phillips.

She told him what happened to Sir David Amess “should never ever break that link between an elected representative and their democratic role, responsibility and duty to the people that have elected them to be their representative.”

Home secretary Priti Patel is busy drawing up extra protection plans for MPs, which could include a regular police presence at weekly surgeries like the one at which the MP for Southend West was stabbed to death on Friday.

Police forces contacted all 650 MPs following Sir David Amess’ death to offer reassurance and support, with some deploying officers to public events MPs were attending.

Our political editor Andrew Woodcock has more details:

Police have been given six more days to question the man suspected of murdering Sir David Amess in a terrorist attack amid reports he had previously been referred to the government’s counterterrorism scheme, Prevent.

The 25-year-old – a British national of Somali heritage – is being detained for questioning at a London police station under section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

Police have not yet confirmed the identity of the suspect, but he has been named in reports.

My colleague Peter Stubley has the full story: