Labour has been urged to ban controversial “non-crime hate incidents” following a series of high-profile “Orwellian” encounters with Britain’s police.
Kemi Badenoch’s Tories are set to table an amendment to the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill to bar officers from recording NCHIs in all but a few cases.
And the party leader herself has warned that police are “trawling social media for things someone might find offensive” rather than “fighting crime and protecting families”.
“Keir Starmer needs to stop hiding behind weasel words. Stand up, show some courage, and back real policing over political correctness,” she blasted.
“If Labour were serious about the violence in our towns and cities, they’d back our amendment and fix this.”
NCHIs were first brought into force in 2014 having been recommended by the 1999 inquiry into Stephen Lawrence’s death in 1993.
Today is the anniversary of his death – and one Tory official told Politico that the timing was not intentional.
And Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp, who was Policing Minister when the new guidelines were introduced, said: “Our amendment will stop police forces from wasting time on this Orwellian nonsense and get them back to doing the job the public expects: fighting real crime.
“The Conservative Party will always stand up for free speech and common sense.”
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‘They don’t want you to know… but worse, they don’t want to know themselves!’ Tory MP’s dire warning as Home Office fails to reveal crucial migrant data
Tory MP Nick Timothy has issued a dire warning over transparency in the Home Office after the department failed to reveal crucial data on how many illegal migrants are working in Britain.
Timothy had probed the Home Office on “how many illegal migrants have been granted permission to work in full-time and part-time employment in each year since 2020”.
But the department refused to give him the data – and changed his wording of “illegal migrants” to “irregular migrants”.
Home Office Minister Dame Angela Eagle said in response that finding such data would “involve collating and verifying information from multiple systems owned by multiple teams” in the department.
As a result, the figures can allegedly only be obtained “at disproportionate cost”.
After his request was denied, Timothy blasted on social media: “They don’t want you to know. But worse, they don’t want to know themselves. Because they don’t care.”
Bridget Phillipson doubles down on trans U-turn as she lays down law on toilets
Bridget Phillipson has doubled down on her trans U-turn
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Bridget Phillipson has doubled down on her trans U-turn after vowing that transgender women should use male toilets.
Last week, she welcomed the landmark Supreme Court ruling – but the Education Secretary had just last year said that trans women – with penises – would be able to use women-only bathrooms under Labour’s plan to make gender changing easier.
And this morning, she told the BBC that the ruling was clear that “services should be accessed on the basis of biological sex”.
“There are important questions around, for example, the use of toilets, around the use of changing facilities, but there are also profound questions that I think are even more important about, for example, hospital provision, rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, where you are talking about people often being in that provision on an accommodation basis for an extended period of time,” she said.
Phillipson added: “I know that many businesses, large and small, will ensure that they have appropriate provision in place… For example, many businesses have moved towards unisex provision or separate cubicles that can be used by anyone.”
Keir Starmer cosies up to Kiwis – just days after PM urged to pursue ‘Canzuk’
Starmer met Luxon at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa last year
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Sir Keir Starmer is set to inspect a military base alongside New Zealander counterpart Christopher Luxon later today.
The pair will meet Ukrainian soldiers being trained on British soil by the UK and New Zealand military – and are also expected to unveil a new arms deal which will see the Ministry of Defence buy £30million worth of drones made by a Kiwi firm, alongside a new agreement to strengthen defence cooperation.
It comes just days after the UK was urged to pursue “Canzuk” – a Canada-Australia-UK-New Zealand alliance which proponents say could redefine Britain’s place in the world.
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Labour calls for ‘police action’ over vile graffiti during mass trans protests – ‘Completely unacceptable!’
Labour’s Education Minister Stephen Morgan has called for “police action” the “unacceptable” language on placards and daubed on statues at the weekend’s mass trans protests in London.
One placard at an “emergency demonstration” in Parliament Square over the weekend showed an illustration of gallows alongside a slogan suggesting “the only good Terf [trans-exclusionary radical feminist]” is a hanged one.
Morgan told Sky News: “It’s completely unacceptable language to be used, and obviously any matters that break the law should be reported to the police, and hopefully police action is taken.”
The protests had erupted in response to the landmark Supreme Court judgment that the terms “woman” and “sex” are biologically defined – and he indicated that Equalities Minister and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson would make a statement in the Commons in response to the judgment soon.
MPs plotting to BLOCK Donald Trump’s address to Parliament – ‘We’ve got nothing to learn from a serial liar!’
MPs and peers are plotting to block US President Donald Trump from addressing Parliament during his upcoming state visit to the UK.
Trump recently told reporters in the Oval Office that “the King and the great country” had invited him for a “second fest” which will be “beautiful”.
But one Labour MP spat: “Parliament has nothing to learn from a serial liar, cheat, womaniser and bankrupt. We don’t need Trump to lecture and dictate his unilateral terms to our elected representatives.”
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Labour hits back at Tories’ NCHI crackdown – ‘It’s half-baked!’
Policing Minister Diana Johnson, responding to the Conservatives’ NCHI proposals, said: “The Tories are all over the place. They had 14 years in charge of policing to set priorities or make policy changes in this area, and failed to do so.
“The Shadow Home Secretary was the policing minister who said just two years ago that ‘if someone is targeted because of hostility or prejudice towards their race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity the incident can and should be recorded as a non-crime hate incident’.
“Instead of introducing unworkable and half-baked measures which would prevent the police monitoring serious antisemitism and other racist incidents, the Tories should support the Labour Government’s prioritisation of neighbourhood policing and serious violence.”