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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Law to make street harassment like wolf whistling a crime 'blocked at top of government'

Laws to make public sexual harassment a crime are being blocked at the top of government, an independent advisor warned today.

Home Office plans last year could have made wolf-whistling and catcalling a criminal offence, and passed new specific laws on the most severe acts of street harassment too.

But the plan has barely been mentioned for six months - after Boris Johnson complained making new crimes would “increase the problems” for police.

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