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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026
Debate
Crime and Policing BillContribution
So it is important that we understand this in context. One prominent politician has used the catchphrase that the police should be “policing the streets and not tweets”. That is a very good phrase, but I do not think it is the case that, in the main, the police are doing that. There have been some examples of clumsy police action in relation to social media. Some of those examples do not relate to non-crime hate incidents at all.
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