The Scottish National Party has won its fourth straight parliamentary election on Saturday and insisted it will push on with another referendum on Scotland’s independence from the U.K. even though it just failed to secure a majority.
Updated 18/03/2021 08:49 GMT
Police Will Record Crimes Motivated By Misogyny In Historic Move To Protect Women
Forces to log incidents from this autumn, pending possible change to wider law.
All crimes “motivated” by misogyny are to be recorded by police after the government bowed to pressure in the House of Lords to toughen the law on protecting women.
In a bid to avoid a government defeat, Home office minister Baroness Williams announced that all police forces in England and Wales would be asked from this autumn to record crimes caused by “hostility” based on sex or gender.
Campaigners hope the move is a key step towards wider change that would classify misogyny as a hate crime and give judges the power to impose tougher sentences for incidents of abuse and harassment, including street harassment.