Recalling the incident at Stormont, Eastwood told the Commons: “We would see a lot of school groups coming through the constituency. We previously did a lot of visits to the Parliament Building in Stormont whenever I sat there in the Northern Ireland Assembly.

“During one school visit, a member of the public came up and said that they wanted to rape me.

“There were two people there, and we were just kind of paralysed in response. That was not the right response—not from me, but from the people around—but it is so normalised that that was exactly what people thought. That is not good enough.”

Eastwood added that members of the Northern Ireland Executive are “desperate and anxious to act” in tackling violence against women, but they “cannot do it alone”.

“We need the help of every single member of this house,” she added.

“Human rights are not devolved, and on a technical point, the regulation of social media is certainly not devolved.”

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