"The Home Office said increases in hate crime over the last five years have been mainly driven by improvements in crime recording by the police".
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However, it added that there had been "short-term genuine rises in hate crime" following certain events such as the 2016 EU referendum and "part of the increase over the last year may reflect a real rise in hate crimes recorded by the police".
Jim Carroll