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Speech in the House of Commons, November 2019.

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In 2018-19, there were
103,379 recorded hate crime offences, which was a 10%
increase on 2017-18. In 2016, there was a sharp increase—an
increase of 44%—in racially and religiously motivated
hate crime. I will not say why that increase happened,
because I think it is very apparent what occurred that
year.
I have been personally affected by hate crime on the
basis of my sexuality, which has led to me being followed
home, being hit with crowbars and having things thrown
at me in the street. I have had to drop out of education
twice, and by the age of 14, I was in my third high
school. That negatively affected my mental health and
restricted my ability to be myself in a public forum.
Although everybody’s experience of hate crime is
different we, as the UK Youth Parliament, need to
recognise the rapid increase in hate crime and how
many of the young people we represent will become
victims. I firmly believe that it is our duty to do something
to protect the young people we represent. We need to do
our best to reduce the number of young people affected
by these horrific crimes.
We are a diverse group of young people, so I can
guarantee that other people in this Chamber will have
been affected by hate crime, or will know someone who
has been. I want you to think about how you or somebody
else felt in that situation. I can almost guarantee that it
was a horrific feeling. I want you to tell me a legitimate
justification for how you think we can allow these
numbers to increase, allow the young people we represent
to be victims of these horrific crimes, and allow that to
affect their mental health, their ability to stay in education
and their place in society

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