U.K. Reports Big Rise in Hate Crime, Citing Brexit and Terrorist Attacks<br />Each time it goes up a notch." The hate crime figures were released on the same day<br />that the head of the country’s domestic spy service, MI5, warned that Britain was facing a surge in terrorist threats that were increasingly hard to detect and on a scale previously unseen.<br />In addition, provisional data collected around the time of terrorist attacks this year in London<br />and in Manchester, where the bombing outside the Ariana Grande concert left 22 dead, found that hate crimes soon followed the attacks.<br />17, 2017<br />LONDON — The referendum on British membership in the European Union<br />and several terrorist attacks, including a suicide bombing after a concert in Manchester, England, have helped drive hate crimes in Britain to record levels, official figures showed on Tuesday.<br />The Home Office said that 80,393 hate crimes were reported during the 12 months to March of this year, an increase of nearly 30 percent<br />and the largest year-to-year rise in the five years that data has been collected.<br />The figures were released on the same day that the head of the country’s domestic spy service, MI5, warned<br />that Britain was facing a surge in terrorist threats that were increasingly hard to detect and on a scale previously unseen.<br />Seven percent of hate crimes were based on a person’s disability and a further 2 percent were transgender-related hate crimes.
