There have been countless examples over the past three years of passion in politics spilling into hate-filled abuse.

I remember a 2016 Vote Leave bus visit to Norwich when two placard-wielding protesters, one a Leaver and one a Remainer, nearly came to blows.

Last year we saw a worrying confrontation between a Remain supporter and Jacob Rees-Mogg, outside the MP’s house as he was with his children.

But yesterday’s footage and audio of Tory Anna Soubry being called a “Nazi” on TV during a Brexit interview still had the power to shock and disturb – as did the pictures of her being heckled as she walked back to Parliament.

For some MPs, it was too much.

Led by Labour backbencher Stephen Doughty, they penned a letter to Met Police Commissioner Cressida Dick urging officers to intervene.

Privately, MPs are genuinely worried one it’s a matter of time before one of their number is attacked.

One only has to think back to the assassination of Jo Cox a week before the EU referendum to realise that’s hardly a baseless fear.

With 80 days until we quit, and the atmosphere at Westminster increasingly febrile, we all need to think carefully about the language we use, the division in our society and, crucially, how on Earth we come back together when all this is over.

Inside the Commons, MPs launch their latest bid to make a no-deal departure more difficult today.

A cross-party amendment to the Finance Bill seeks to hamper the Government’s tax powers in the event of a pact-less exit that hasn’t been backed by Parliament.

Ministers may opt to fold rather than fight and lose, aware of the bigger battle looming next week when the “meaningful vote” is due to take place.

There’s another reminder today of the non-Brexit problems facing the country with housing charity Shelter calling on the Government to pump £214billion into building three million new homes to solve the social housing crisis.

Some 1.2 million young families do not qualify for social housing and can’t pull together enough cash for a deposit.

It’s issues like this that ordinary voters face every day while inside SW1 the Brexit temperature rises.

Today’s agenda:

8.30am – Cabinet meeting

11.30am – Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy questions in the Commons

4pm – Local Government Minister Jake Berry gives evidence to the Communities Select Committee on reviving high streets

What I am reading:

Rachel Sylvester on why politics needs a reset

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