Extract from Commons debate on the legacy of Jo Cox - Sep 9
Friday, 10 September 2021 07:55
Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark) (Lab):...There are of
course issues that Jo would have still been championing today, and
that we need to step up on in her name and in all our interests.
The rise in online hate and extremism continues in the UK as
elsewhere. As the former chair of the all-party parliamentary group
on counter-extremism, I am very aware of the alarming statistics on
the growth of Prevent referrals about far-right groups. In the most
recent year for which statistics are...Request free trial
(Bermondsey
and Old Southwark) (Lab):...There are of course issues that
Jo would have still been championing today, and that we need to
step up on in her name and in all our interests. The rise in online
hate and extremism continues in the UK as elsewhere. As the former
chair of the all-party parliamentary group on counter-extremism, I
am very aware of the alarming statistics on the growth of Prevent
referrals about far-right groups. In the most recent year for which
statistics are available, 105,000 hate crimes were recorded by the
police, an 8% increase on the previous year. Our focus must be on
tackling division and hatred, wherever it comes from—including
anti-Muslim prejudice and the startling rise in antisemitism a feature of both far-left
and far-right groups...
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