After the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 , the Government in Britain brought forward the Anti-Terrorism , Crime and Security Bill . Clause 38 of that Bill would have had the effect of amending Part 3 of the Public Order Act 1986 to extend the existing provisions on incitement to racial hatred to cover incitement to religious hatred . When the Bill reached the House of Lords , an amendment to remove the clause was passed by 240 votes to 141 . The Commons reinstated the clause , but the Lords again removed it . Finally , the then Home Secretary , David Blunkett , accepted that the Commons had to accede to the Lords ' insistence that the clause be left out of the Bill
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Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006