Last night in the Commons Labour voted down a Tory amendment to the Sentencing Bill that would have forced the release of all migrant crime data. The amendment was also backed by Reform’s Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin…
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said:
“Starmer promised a ‘transparency revolution’, but last night he forced every single Labour MP to vote against releasing the migrant crime data. Cover-up Keir can’t handle the truth about mass migration, and the British people will be less safe because of it.”
This is despite government briefings back in April promising to publish “crime tables” for migrants awaiting deportation. Six months later, no table in sight…
Labour’s been stonewalling on migrant crime data since entering office – batting away written parliamentary questions with the usual Whitehall waffle that the data is “too expensive” to compile or “not held centrally.” What are they hiding?
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”