9 Feb 2023

Hate speech laws among policy purge

From Morning Report, 8:47 am on 9 February 2023

The Prime Minister has used his policy purge to ditch a contentious change to hate speech laws. 

Labour has been working on an overhaul of the legislation since the March 2019 mosque attacks. 

It planned to pass watered down changes this year, but they've now been kicked down the road, again. 

So how did we get to this point? 

Political reporter Katie Scotcher explains.