This report documents the declining order and increasing squalor in the immediate vicinity of the Palace of Westminster in recent years.

Violent crime has risen two and a half times faster in the streets around Parliament than in London as a whole, and three times faster than in Westminster borough as a whole.

The report documents how police have allowed serious potential security threats to develop in the area, and how extreme right and left-wing protestors have been able to threaten MPs, ministers and journalists.

A Freedom of Information Act request to the Metropolitan Police shows the force now lists the Cenotaph – Britain’s chief national war memorial to the dead of the First and Second World Wars and subsequent conflicts – on a list of “contentious statues” along with the statue of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who has been voted the greatest Briton by the public.