The House of Lords has beefed up government proposals by amending a bill which removes the statutory basis for the police recording ‘non-crime hate incidents’ (NCHIs).
Free speech campaigners have long called for the end of NCHIs, and the government put forward proposals to end police powers to issue them.
But in a vote in the House of Lords, peers supported an even stronger amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill brought by Lord Young of Acton, the founder of the Free Speech Union.
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