It’s back of the net for team Jenrick as their mini-campaign to force the government to publish nationality data about foreign offenders living in the UK comes to fruition. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has told civil servants they must publish the data before the year is out, showing both the nationality of offenders and the crimes committed by those listed for deportation. Foreign national offenders are automatically deported if sentenced to 12 months or more in prison, but many say it should be automatic for any criminal offence…
The BBC reports: “Home Office figures are expected to show the main three nationalities for foreign criminals living in the community are Albanians, Romanians and Poles. It is understood their most common offences were the production of drugs, theft and robbery, and acts of violent assault.” It’s a big win for Bobby J, whose relentless work ethic is putting most Tories to shame…
Co-conspirators who frequent the capital are now fairly likely to have had a phone or bike nabbed by thieves. A phone is now stolen in London every six minutes…
Guido hears from the Home Office that the department has fully developed a beefed up set of new rules which would allow police officers to enter premises without a warrant in order to seize stolen devices with GPS tracking. Such a change enter legislation…
The Home Office newsdesk has been contacted for comment. Sources tell Guido that the policy, once fully greenlit, will appear in Labour’s Crime and Policing Bill – that’s not due for some time yet. Alterations could still be made before it goes through parliament…
The minister in charge of policing had her purse stolen at a conference about…policing. Crime, Policing and Fire minister Diana Johnson met with senior police officers earlier today when her wallet was nicked, having just spoken at the conference bemoaning the “epidemic of anti-social behaviour, theft and shoplifting”. You couldn’t make it up…
The incident sent the Home Office into hight alert as they are now “probing security risks” while Warwickshire Police have confirmed they are investigating the theft. Let’s hope it wasn’t one of those early released prisoners…
Tom Baldwin, author of Starmer’s hagiography, spoke to Times Radio:
Tom Baldwin: “I think he’d like to do something. He’s very dutiful and driven by service. That’s why he came into politics. I think that’s characterised his time as prime minister. He hasn’t always sought popularity or been good at being popular. But I think he has some of the necessary qualities that we actually do want in a prime minister. That resilience, that relentlessness, that ability to carry the weight and the job really does weigh very heavily on people and he carries that weight very, very well.”
Jo Coburn: “NATO Secretary-General?”
Tom Baldwin: “I think that’s something that he would be interested in. I think it probably requires Andy Burnham’s government to support him in that and these are some of the questions which Andy Burnham has to resolve quite quickly.”