Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to reports of a brutal attack on a 17 year old asylum seeker yesterday evening, said:

“Sadly this is not an isolated incident,  but part of a sustained increase in hate crimes that this Tory government is yet to offer any effective response to.

 “With right-wing politicians across the world scapegoating migrants, refugees and others for their economic problems, we are seeing a deeply worrying rise in the politics of hate.

 “We must make clear that there is no place for anti-foreigner myths, racism and hate in our society.”