Hate crimes in England and Wales have jumped by the biggest amount since 2017, according to the latest official figures.
In the year ending March 2022, there were 155,841 hate crimes recorded by the police - a 26 per cent increase compared with the previous year.
This is the biggest increase since 2017, when there was a 29 per cent rise.
Anneliese Dodds, Labour’s shadow equalities minister, branded the statistics evidence of “Tory failure”.
The Home Office has published...