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In his BBC Breakfast interview Boris Johnson did not back calls for misogyny to be made a hate crime. He said there was already adequate legislation on the statute book to protect women, and what was important was for the existing laws to be enforced. He said:
I think that what we should do is prosecute people for the crimes we have on the statute book.
That is what I am focused on. To be perfectly honest, if you widen the scope of what you ask the police to do, you will just increase the problem.
