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Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, the policing minister in the previous government, said the police guidance on dealing with hate speech should be updated to ensure officers were not "policing thought" or "free speech".

The current guidance for dealing with non-crime hate incidents was introduced by then-Home Secretary Suella Braverman in June 2023, when Philp was policing minister.

“I think because I’m always dealing with ambiguous emotions, I’ve always been afraid of music tipping the balance in one direction or being too histrionic or too sentimental.”

“I want to convey, first of all, this darkish noir sense,” he explains, “that we’re dealing with something that is related to the dark part of our subconscious, of our soul. We are staring at the shadows. I also think it’s a story about destiny, which is mocking the main character. So I wanted to put some sarcasm into the music.”

Northern said it was still dealing with problems sparked by a timetable change in 2018 that persists in putting together timetables and "challenges facing colleagues".