Senior Tory, Reform and Labour figures have united to endorse a new Policy Exchange report tearing into the crumbling Metropolitan Police. According to the findings, public confidence in the Met has sunk to an all-time low under Mark Rowley’s three-year tenure. Just 45% of Londoners believing the force is doing a good job in their own neighbourhood…
The report reveals the Met is managing to solve just 1 in 20 reported robberies and burglaries, 1 in 76 bike thefts, a miserable 1 in 179 theft-from-person offences, and 1 in 13 shoplifting cases. Grim numbers…
Labour MP Jonathan Hinder, Tory MPs Chris Philp and Nick Timothy, a pair of Conservative peers, and Reform’s Laila Cunningham have all backed the report. It calls for the Home Secretary to become the Met’s official “policing body”, removing the Mayor of London’s policing oversight role. Take it off Sadiq’s hands…
Read the report in full below:
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”