"We have got to face facts. The police are being funded less and less. They are not going to be able to look into some of these hate crimes. A bit controversially, I will ask: do you think that some of us need to toughen up a little bit?"
"At the end of the day, many of us I know I do get abuse. I'm a Tory in London, and sometimes we get abuse. To me it's water off a duck's back I ignore it, because you have to carry on. You can't ignore real crime, and sometimes these [incidents] verge into that. But do you not think that we should start toughening up and just ignore it?"
At a London Assembly police and crime committee meeting, Susan Hall said police funding cuts mean officers must prioritise which incidents to investigate and asked whether some victims should 'toughen up.' She said she personally receives abuse as a Tory in London and often ignores it, arguing people should learn life skills to disregard some incidents. Labour politicians and hate crime experts condemned the remarks as lacking empathy and warned they trivialise the emotional and social impacts of hate crime. The exchange took place amid concerns about assaults on London's public transport; Transport for London recorded 1,268 hate crimes in the first half of 2025.
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