this was somehow Conservative ministers choosing to downgrade the monitoring of racial hatred; in fact, it was an important protection required by the courts that found the police have used “non crime hate incidents” to unlawfully police citizens’ free speech.
Free speech is neither a “nice to have” nor a rightwing project: it is a fundamental tenet of democracy and when it is under threat, it is disempowered minorities who suffer most. Labour needs to stop seeing important free speech protections introduced by Tory ministers as expendable fuel for attacking their predecessors.
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