Kemi Bedenoch's plan to scrap hate incidents dishonours Stephen Lawrence

The policy that emerged from the young Black man's murder was meant to stop hate before it escalates. Scrapping it doesn't fight crime, it fuels it.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons Pic: Flickr/UK Parliament

If you thought the Conservatives might be ready to become a serious party, think again. Only the Tories could choose the anniversary of Stephen Lawrence’s murder, a landmark moment in this country’s reckoning with institutional racism, to unveil a policy that actively dis…