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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker

Rapid action needed on online hate, say Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan

Angela Rayner at the Labour party conference
‘They’ve tried to self-regulate. They’ve not been able to do it. It’s time for us to legislate,’ Angela Rayner said at the Labour party conference on Sunday. Photograph: Terry Scott/SPP/Rex/Shutterstock

Ministers need to push through legislative efforts to clamp down on online hate, Angela Rayner and Sadiq Khan have argued, as they said abuse and prejudice had become “monetised”.

Speaking at a Labour conference fringe event in Liverpool, Khan, the mayor of London, said analysis had uncovered 230,000 racist tweets about him sent since he took the role in 2016, and that barely any were removed.

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