Rishi Sunak accuses SNP of 'trying to lock up JK Rowling' with hate crime law

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Rishi Sunak accuses SNP of 'trying to lock up JK Rowling' with hate crime law
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The Tory Prime Minister told MPs the Nationalists should stop 'obsessing about independence and indeed wasting time cracking down on free speech'.

The Tory Prime Minister told MPs the Nationalists should stop "obsessing about independence and indeed wasting time cracking down on free speech".

Sunak was speaking in response to Stephen Flynn during Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday afternoon. Brown had told the FT: "In the long run, the forces pulling Britain apart are greater than the forces holding it together, unless something is done about it.” “So maybe the Prime Minister can find some time this afternoon to perhaps agree with just one of his predecessors.”

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