"To have my own niece beaten up in the street for being gay. I thought we'd moved on from that. I was absolutely furious, I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us."
"Within a year my niece and her wife have been badly beaten up, in their own town, for holding hands by a group of blokes..."
"This goes to something I'm really worried about in this country, which is, a political question above all else, which is I worry that we're becoming a country of toxic division. Or at least that's where some people want to take us."
Keir Starmer's niece and her wife were victims of a homophobic hate crime, beaten in their own town for holding hands. The couple had married within the previous year; the wedding was described as the first gay wedding Starmer had taken his children to and was called fantastic. Photographs showed the niece with a bruised and swollen face. Starmer called the attack infuriating and said he thought such violence was in the past. He warned that the incident reflects growing toxic division in the country and framed it as a political concern about where some forces want to take the nation.
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