My Labour opponent joined a Black Lives Matter rally in Birmingham during lockdown, to bend the knee alongside those who seek to defund the police.
The Home Office should host a site which contains accurate data for the whole of the UK – and which can be easily accessed for the last ten years.
If the bicycle that is stolen is someone’s only means of getting to work, then there is significant harm.
Each time rioting is ignored by the police, we move one stop closer to allowing a tyrannical Twitter-dwelling minority to become very powerful indeed.
Criminal behaviour under the new law would be based on offence caused, rather than intended – a significant difference to England and Wales.
Agricultural vehicle and land rover theft is up by over a quarter. We need to stamp out serious organised crime in our countryside.
A Community Foundation in the county helps the old with insulation improvements and the young to turn away from knife crime.
It was promised “in our first year”. Instead, there will be mini-commissions, and a push to reform a Government bugbear: judicial review.
Those caught carrying acid to be imprisoned on the first offence, not the second. Yet the Lib Dems want to weaken the penalties.
Those on the frontline deserve to be protected, be it from assault or a virus – and we shouldn’t forget or negate that.
I hesitate to disagree with Daniel Finkelstein, but city growth has been powered more by smalltown commuters than flat-cap wearing uber-boheminans.
One principle would stop us being seen as a soft touch for crime: care for the abused properly, and they will help dismantle the gangs.
Together with error, it is set to cost the taxpayer an eye-watering sum in the region of £4.6 billion.
From my spot on the Domestic Abuse committee, I saw just how much this Government wants to champion the rights of those who have been victimised.
The Western World has consistently reduced its contribution to these schemes with people making increasingly dangerous journeys.