Last week I was in Strasbourg with other UK colleagues at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Members stood in tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo and supermarket massacres in Paris.

As members of a body committed to upholding human rights – including both freedom of religion and freedom of speech, and born out of the aftermath of WWII and the Holocaust – it was a poignant, and stark reminder of how much work we still have to do to combat hatred and intolerance, even in old-established democracies.