Britain’s Justice Secretary and deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab speaks on the third day of the annual Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Central convention centre in Manchester, northwest England, on October 5, 2021.
His confusion about the definition arose during an interview with the BBC in which he was asked why the government rejected calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime in the wake of the murder of London woman Sarah Everard. “Criminalising insulting language — even if it’s misogynistic — does not deal with the intimidation, the violence and the much higher level of offence and damage and harm that we really ought to be laser-like focused in on,” the former foreign secretary said.
The death of the 33-year-old marketing consultant rocked the country and led to an outcry over violence against women and girls in Britain.