Overview

• Kennedy says she received thousands of vile online messages and argues senior women in public roles endure more personal, misogynistic attacks.
• She rejects claims of a two-tier policing system and describes the Southport unrest as coordinated criminality that included carloads arriving to target a mosque.
• She says she sought to disclose the attacker's religion to counter false narratives but was advised against it by local Crown prosecutors at the charging stage.
• She notes that releasing a suspect’s "white, British-born" status in a later Liverpool incident failed to halt misinformation and welcomes new NPCC and College of Policing guidance on sharing suspect data.
• She calls Reform UK’s pledge to scrap equality and diversity policies "ludicrous" and warns inflammatory rhetoric on immigration is harming trust and workforce morale, with Rob Carden set to take over on 1 September.