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The Home Office cautions that police-recorded hate crime figures are shaped by reporting & recording practices, so they should not be read as a complete measure of prevalence.

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The British Muslim Trust has also reported an increase in the severity of incidents affecting mosques, warning of a shift from attacks directed at buildings towards threats & violence targeting the people inside them.

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Religious hate crimes increased by 13%, including a 15% rise in offences targeting Muslims & a 10% rise in those targeting Jewish people.

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New UK Home Office figures show that police recorded 146,825 hate crimes in England and Wales in the year ending March 2026, up 7% on the previous year.

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MI5 says this rise in extreme right-wing terrorism has contributed significantly to the UK threat level being raised to SEVERE.

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He also highlighted how young this threat can skew: MI5 recently investigated a radicalised 13-year-old while a 16-year-old from Inverclyde was sentenced after planning an attack on an Islamic centre.

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